Talent Guide

Thanh Tran

  • Discipline:Director/Producer
  • Program Year:Amplifier Fellowship 2026

Bio

Thanh Tran is an Amerasian Vietnamese and Black filmmaker, music artist and community organizer. He co-founded Uncuffed, an award-winning podcast amplifying incarcerated voices, and ForwardThis Productions, one of the first film collectives led entirely by incarcerated people. He is co-founder of New Krma Media, a worker-owned social enterprise supporting system-impacted artists through music, film and activism. He directs Finding Má, a feature-length documentary following his family’s search for their unhoused mother after decades of separation. He also serves as Program Manager for the Returning Filmmaker Fellowship and Board Member of the Andrus Family Foundation.

Current Project

Finding Má

Logline

After decades apart, an Amerasian Vietnamese and Black family separated by foster care and prison reunite to heal, beginning with searching for their unhoused mother.