Trinh Tran
Writer/Director
ICF Class of '00

Trinh was born near Saigon in Cho Long, Vietnam. Later, she lived in Albany, New York before moving to Los Angeles with her parents, two older brothers and younger sister.

Trinh was always a good student in school, and her parents looked forward to her going into a computer related business once she graduated. But Trinh loved films. She loved watching them, researching them, and reading about them.

In the 9th grade Trinh picked Steven Spielberg as the famous person to research and prepare a paper for her English class. She got an A.

Trinh graduated from San Gabriel High School where her favorite subject was English. But she wanted to pursue a career in filmmaking.

After graduating from the Inner-City Filmmakers 2000 Summer Program, where she made a film about the frailty of young love, Trinh became a full time student at Cal State Long Beach. Nonetheless she is still attending the Screenwriting Class and the Intermediate Avid Editing Class at Inner-City Filmmakers to sharpen her filmmaking skills.

"ICF is a great opportunity for young filmmakers to get started in the industry. Without ICF I don't know if I would have ever had the chance to learn, meet the people, and experience all the things I've already done."

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