Stephane Gauger is a Vietnamese-American film director,[1] screenwriter, and cinematographer.
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Born in Saigon, South Vietnam to an American civilian contractor and his Vietnamese wife, Gauger was raised in Orange County, California and graduated from California State University, Fullerton in theatre arts and French literature.
He met cinematographer Matthew Libatique at CSUF and apprenticed under him as a camera loader and lighting technician. While working on thesis films at Loyola Marymount University, he met filmmaker brothers Tony Bui and Timothy Bui, and worked as a lighting technician on their feature films Three Seasons and Green Dragon.
Mr. Gauger directed the short film Seabirds (1998) before his first feature Owl and the Sparrow (2007), which premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and won over fifteen awards at international film festivals and was released theatrically in the U.S. in January 2009.
Partial filmography as writer Owl and the Sparrow (2007) Saigon Electric (2010) Powder Blue (2009) story
Stephane Gauger is a nominee of the Breakthrough Director Award at the 2007 Gotham Awards and the John Cassavetes Award at the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards. He is the recipient of the emerging director award at the 2007 Starz Denver Film Festival.