Tony Bui

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Tony Bui is Vietnamese American independent film director, most famous for his film Three Seasons, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and became the only film ever to win both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize there. The film was based on Bui's own experiences dealing with the changing landscape and people of his ancestral home of Vietnam. The film starred Harvey Keitel.

Bui came to the US at age 2. He was raised in Sunnyvale, California. His father ran a video store which led to his interest in film. He studied film at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He visited Vietnamese several times before making first short film, the highly successful short film Yellow Lotus, which also debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to play at festivals all around the world.

Tony has also produced Green Dragon, starring Patrick Swayze and Forest Whitaker, for his brother Tim Bui, as well as writing several screenplays for production companies. He is believed to be developing another feature film project. For a brief time he was associated with Lazarus, a film in development at Warner Brothers.