Hong Khaou

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Hong Khaou
Born (1975-10-22) 22 October 1975 (age 48)
NationalityBritish
Alma mater University for the Creative Arts
Occupations
  • Director
  • screenwriter
Years active2005–present

Hong Khaou (born 22 October 1975) is a British film director and screenwriter. He is known for his feature film debut, Lilting (2014).

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Early life and education

Khaou was born in Cambodia, the youngest of four children of Chinese-Cambodian parents. He was a few months old when the family fled to Vietnam after the Fall of Phnom Penh. [1] They relocated to England as political refugees when Khaou was eight years old. [2] [3] He studied BA (Hons) Film Production at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design in Farnham, where he graduated in 1997. [4]

Career

Khaou's short film Spring played at both the Sundance Film Festival, and the Berlin International Film Festival in 2011, [5] with his previous short Summer also having premiered at Berlin in 2006. [6]

His debut feature film Lilting was produced under the Film London micro-budget scheme Microwave, [7] and was released on 8 August 2014 in the United Kingdom by distributors Artificial Eye. [8]

He is the recipient of the 2014 Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award for his upcoming feature film Monsoon. [9]

In 2021, Khaou directed four episodes of season 2 of the BBC mystery television series Baptiste . In 2023, he was announced as the director of the drama television series Mr Loverman —BBC's adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, Other —starring Lennie James. [10]

Filmography

'Short film

'Feature film

'Television

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