BIOGRAPHY

Kang Vang is a Hmong American filmmaker, teacher and community leader. With more than 10 years of experience working in media, he's worked for Asian Media Access, where he developed media education curriculum, as well as at the University of Minnesota.

Kang Vang may be best known as a director and writer, known for 1985 (2016), Hmong Organization (2018) and The Pony Collector (2011).

Born in a refugee camp in Thailand, Kang moved to Minnesota with his family when he was just 10 months old. He shares his story of living between two worlds and wanting to make his father, Xai Nou P. Vang – right-hand man to revered Hmong general Vang Pao – proud.

Qualifications

• screenwriting

• directing

• editing - Adobe Premiere

• feature length filmmaker

• production management

• fundraising

CONTACT

 Email: kangvang@gmail.com