VU T. THU HA

Vu T. Thu Ha is a conceptual interdisciplinary artist who works primarily in film and photography.

Born in Vietnam, she has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1997. She studied film and photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and City College of San Francisco, as well as wood technology and fine furniture building at Laney College in Oakland.

Vu's 2006 community-driven and collaboratively-written feature film Kieu, running time 74 minutes, in English, with Vietnamese dialogue, was inspired by Vietnamese epic poem Truyen Kieu (The Tale of Kieu), by Nguyen Du. Kieu premiered in March 2006 at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Vu is also the director of Each Night (2001) and Shut Up White Boy (2002). All of her films have and continue to be screened nationally and internationally.