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Steve Nguyen (born December 30, 1985) is a Vietnamese American director, writer, producer, and co-founder of (Studio APA ). Nguyen and director Choz Belen make up the Studio APA duo, specializing in the production of short films, animation, and music videos. ==Film and television== From 2001 to 2005, Nguyen has made appearances as a young actor on films and network television programs such as ''Las Vegas'', ''Scrubs'', ''Freaks and Geeks'', ''Are You Afraid of the Dark?'', ''Jarhead'', and ''The Man Show.'' He also assisted as a script coordinator in the production department of Justin Lin's ''The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift''. In 2009, Nguyen directed and produced a short documentary film titled "The Making of a Memoir" in collaboration with Vietnamese author Lac Su in order to promote his HarperCollins published memoir, ''I Love Yous Are For White People.'' The documentary helped Su gain national exposure and has been featured on CNN,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo2DCBBrL1U )〕 NPR, the Saigon Broadcasting Television Network, and KSCI. In 2010, Nguyen directed YouTube singer-songwriter Megan Lee's music video for her first official single, "Love, Laugh, & Live".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.allkpop.com/2011/07/megan-lee-reveals-a-mv-for-new-song-love-laugh-live )〕 Nguyen directed and produced an animated film, ''Hibakusha'', which chronicles the early life of Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor, Kaz Suyeishi. The film stars Karin Anna Cheung, Daisuke Suzuki, Jane Lui and William Frederick Knight as the lead voice actors. The film was dedicated to the American Society of Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-Bomb Survivors in an effort to spread awareness for nuclear disarmament and was completed on the 67th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, August 6, 2012. Nguyen and the Studio APA crew have toured with Hibakusha throughout the United States since October 2012, and the film has been screened at the Japanese American National Museum, Vietnamese International Film Festival,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Rafu Shimpo )〕 Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, Dragon Con in Atlanta,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://filmfest.dragoncon.org/2013/d-i-2013/hibakusha/ )〕 University of Michigan, UCLA, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, San Diego State University, UC Davis, UC Riverside, DisOrient Film Festival, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, and California State University, Fullerton. ''Hibakusha'' received the Special Achievement Award and Best Animated Short in 2013 at the International Uranium Film Festival held in Rio de Janeiro.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://uraniumfilmfestival.org/en/festival-programs/iuff-2013/rio-2013/films/438-hibakusha )〕 In association with the nuclear disarmament campaign, Global Zero, Nguyen hosted a travel documentary segment titled "Hiroshima Revisited" as a follow-up effort to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://blog.angryasianman.com/2013/08/on-anniversary-of-atomic-bomb-hiroshima.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Nguyen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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