Darkland
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2008
Logline
A thriller set in Vietnam War-era Laos, in which a young USAID worker, Lauren Baxter, gets swept up in a dangerous love affair with the head of a government dam building operation, Thanh Nyugen, who is secretly funding attacks on the villagers she works to save in order to complete his dam.
Phillip Van
Director/ Writer
Phillip Van is an MFA candidate in NYU’s Graduate Film Program, Tisch School of the Arts and is the son of a Vietnamese refugee and a Greek-American. Phillip's films have screened and won awards around the world in festivals including the Berlin International Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival, and Gen Art Film Festival, among others. He also won a 1st place Eastman Scholarship, was the U.S. winning entry in Kodak’s program at the Cannes Film Festival and is the winner of a 2007 Student Academy Award. Phillip is represented by Bryan Besser at Endeavor. He was also just signed by Rhea Scott at Little Minx, a wing of Ridley Scott’s commercial and television production company RSA, where he is the youngest of 11 directors.