Van B. Nguyen is a Texas-native, Vietnamese-American writer/director who built a career in production as an assistant director. Her short films have screened at several film festivals, and her pilot, Casualties, was selected as one of the top 20 unproduced pilots by female writers for the WeForShe 2019 WriteHer List. Van was also a 2020 Film Independent Episodic Lab fellow with her pilot, Descent. Her action feature, Blackout, stars Josh Duhamel, Abbie Cornish, and Nick Nolte. Fun fact: Van’s name pronounced in Vietnamese actually rhymes with “run” or “fun” but don’t expect her to do either without caffeine.