- Le-Van Kiet is a Vietnamese-born filmmaker who wrote and directed Furie, a martial-arts crime thriller. Furie was selected as the Vietnamese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards and broke the record for highest-grossing Vietnamese film in history. In 2022, He directed his first Hollywood studio film, The Princess, for 20th Century.
Kiet's debut film Dust of Life (2006) is coming-of-age drama incorporating an episode from his own personal life - the exodus of Vietnamese boat people in the 1970s and 1980s. Since then, drama and thriller have taken turns in his work. His horror film House in the Alley (2012) was a great success in Vietnam and his film Gentle (2014), based on a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, had its premiere in Busan International Film Festival. Kiet is a graduate of UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bethany Huang
- Graduated from UCLA School of Film & TV.
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