🎬Viet- American Culinary Storyteller
📺 Award-winning Sr. TV Producer/Writer formerly at CNN
🎥Filmmaker of documentary Quan 13 about the Viet Diaspora in Paris told thru the lens of food
📍Los Angeles
Currently in pre-production on my latest Food Documentary “Of Land & Sea: An Ode to Nuoc Nam (fish sauce)”
Currently developing food & travel series focused on diasporas around the world “Taste in Transition”
Also, developing scripted tv pilots
My mission is to tell impactful Asian American narratives and highlight immigrant communities through the lens of food.
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My name is pronounced:
🎤🎤HUE
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🌟Awards
🥇2021 Breakout Storyteller of the Year - Taste Awards
🏆2021 Short documentary film nominee: Quan 13 - Taste Awards
🥇2020 Member of the Year - Asian American Journalist Association
Numerous PROMAX Awards, NY Festival awards for my work on Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown & Larry King Live
I’ve been featured in:
CNN, HLN Headline News, NBCNews.com, VoyageLA.com, ShoutoutLA.com, AsAmNews.com, NguoiViet.com and podcasts The Vietnamese with Kenneth Nguyen, Coffee with Bao
My films have screened at:
LA Asian Pacific Film Festival
DC Asian Film Festival
Bergamo Food Film Festival - Italy
Paris Short Film Festival
Coronado Island Film Fest & more...
VP of Marketing & Social AAJA - LA - national org focused on greater diversity of AAPI in media
🎓MFA in Poetry - NYU
🎓 Producing Certificate -UCLA
🎓BA Journalism & Creative Writing - Emory
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Fun facts:
I consider myself an “undercover southerner” having grown up in the Deep South.
The only food I will NOT eat is rice pudding!
I love horror movies & books.
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📧 [email protected]
🖥 www.Hieugray.com
IG: @LaPetiteBelle_Eats
DM me with questions & inquiries or to collaborate