NGUYỄN Lương Hằng is a Vietnamese writer-director interested in the reconstruction and reinterpretation of personal & collective memories in film, with the Vietnamese female identity at its core. She earned an MFA in Film & Media Production at the University of Texas at Austin with support from the Fulbright Program. Her films have screened at prestigious festivals worldwide, including the Palm Springs ShortFest, EnergaCAMERIMAGE, Brussels Short FF, Flickers’ Rhode Island IFF, Osaka Asian FF, and more. Her thesis film, Rooftop Lempicka, received a Grant for Short Films from the Austin Film Society founded by Richard Linklater, was theatrically released in Japan in a short anthology in 2026. Her debut feature project, Summer 1999, is in development and has participated in the Venice Film Festival’s Biennale College Cinema and Talents Tokyo.