1. Stephane Gauger was a Vietnamese-born American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.
14 Facts About Stephane Gauger
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Stephane Gauger met cinematographer Matthew Libatique at CSUF and apprenticed under him as a camera loader and lighting technician.
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Stephane Gauger worked as a key grip on the feature film Six-String Samurai, directed by Lance Mungia, as a gaffer in the Vietnamese action film The Rebel, directed by Charlie Nguyen and as a gaffer in Ham Tran's Journey from the Fall.
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Stephane Gauger served as a cinematographer on short films such as Moonlight, directed by Alice Chen; Good Bad Karma, directed by David Takemura; Jim and Kim, directed by Victor Teran; and Finding Gauguin, directed by Lee Donald Taicher.
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Stephane Gauger served as his own cinematographer on films he directed, including Vietnam Overtures, Owl and the Sparrow and Saigon Electric.
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Stephane Gauger directed the short film Seabirds before his first feature Owl and the Sparrow, which premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and won over 15 awards at international film festivals.
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Stephane Gauger was nominated for a Gotham Award in 2007 and the John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2008 for the film.
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Stephane Gauger directed and produced a TV pilot written by Feodor Chin and Will Henning entitled Chinatown Squad, which focuses on a four-man squad of San Francisco police officers in the 1980s that attempt to clean up Chinatown from corruption.
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Stephane Gauger directed a short film titled The Moral Paper Route, that starred actors from Chinatown Squad, including Feodor Chin as the father, Rita Huang as the mother and David Huynh as the son.
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Stephane Gauger directed a documentary in 2014 entitled Cheetah: The Nelson Vails Story on former Olympic road and track cyclist Nelson Vails.
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Stephane Gauger wrote the screenplay for a short film entitled Finding Gauguin, directed by Lee Donald Taicher.
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Stephane Gauger wrote screenplays for the films he has directed, including Owl and the Sparrow and Saigon Electric.
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Stephane Gauger was featured in Filmmaker Magazine's 25 new faces of 2007.
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On January 11,2018, Stephane Gauger died after a stroke at the age of 48 in Vietnam.