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Different Kind of Sick

Director | Producer | Writer
Created with the support of Canada Council For the Arts.
Different Kind of Sick follows 6 year old curious Lily who witnesses her parents fight for the first time and they immediately hide it from her. When Lily fights for the truth she gets more than what she bargained for.

VICE Docuseries Breaking Ground

Co-Director | Producer | Writer
Created in participation with TELUS Fund.
A Take Care docuseries, follows four young Asian Canadians on their journey to positive mental health. They unpack and confront the cultural, language, and generational barriers in their lives as they forge a path for others to follow. In an era where anti-Asian discrimination is a pressing issue, Breaking Ground hopes to facilitate thoughtful conversation about the visibility of being Asian.

BIPOC Credits Podcast

With the demand for competent crew members, and BIPOC recruitment, in the booming BC film industry, this podcast aims to educate new and hopeful BIPOC filmmakers and crew members on the various roles involved on a professional film set. Helmed by BC native Andy Wong, who himself is a working Assistant Director in the Director’s Guild of Canada (DGC). Each episode consists of conversations about what new crew members can expect on the job, challenges they may face, and the changing landscape of diversity that has influenced their journey.

ABOUT ME

Nightingale (she/her) is a community driven creative and mental health advocate. Her focus is to empower voices from underrepresented communities using any storytelling medium possible. She has worked with Emmy and SAG award winners in various projects. In 2018 she co-founded non-profit organization Bridging the Gap In Motion, to work with Canadian youth and underprivileged global communities such as Haitian locals. Two films have been made in Haiti through Bridging the Gap In Motion’s efforts.

In 2020, Nightingale created Quarantine Qapsule (QQ) with Museum of Toronto and Tea Base as a community digital archive of the Asian Canadian experience during the pandemic. Due to its success, another QQ was created in BC in collaboration with Emily Carr University of Art & Design (ECUAD). Following QQ, Nightingale wrote, directed and produced VICE Canada’s Asian Canadian Mental Health Docuseries, Breaking Ground (2021).

Currently, Nightingale wants to heighten BIPOC visibility through various mediums and to encourage others to tell their story.

This is a professional portrait of Nightingale (she/her). She in Vietnamese, has long black hair and wearing a white blouse.

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