My Project List
Title: Conversations with Coal Miners about Climate Change
Funded by the Walkley Foundation (Regional Journalism Grant), Distributed by VICE
Released February 2022
Directed by Kim Paul Nguyen and Chris Phillips
40 minute documentary. Kim Paul Nguyen travels to the heart of Australia's coal country to find out if coal miners can work together with climate activists to kick-start an energy transition.
Title: NASCA's NAIDOC Award Winners
Commissioned by the National Aboriginal Sporting Chance Academy
Released July 2021
Camera, Sound, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
12 part short video series. 12 young Aboriginal award winners tell their stories of growing up in Australia and how they've dealt with the many challenges thrown at them.
Title: The Aftermath
Commissioned by GetUp
Released April 2021
Camera, Sound, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
Music by Yen Nguyen
30 minute documentary. The stories of climate refugees in Australia after the Black Summer bushfires.
Title: Kinder der Klimakrise
Commissioned by Irja von Bernstorff
Released April 2021
Camera, Sound and Location Production by Kim Paul Nguyen (Australian Section)
90 minute documentary. The stories of 4 girls on different continents taking action to protect their local environments and the planet.
Title: Impacts of Climate Change on Health in the Pacific
Commissioned by World Health Organisation
Released November 2020
Camera, Sound, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
Music by Yen Nguyen
7.30 minute video. Introduction to health in the Pacific. With sections from the Solomon Islands, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, the Cook Islands and Fiji.
Title: Impacts of Climate Change on Health in the Pacific
Commissioned by World Health Organisation
Released November 2020
Camera, Sound, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
Music by Yen Nguyen
1.45 minute video. Short introduction to health in the Pacific.
Title: Just About to Fade
A music video
Released June 2021
Camera, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
Music by Jon Thomsen
3 minute video. Inspired by "Picnic at Hanging Rock".
Title: NASCA Youth Award Winner Profiles
Commissioned by the National Aboriginal Sporting Chance Academy
Released August 2020
Camera, Sound, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
12 part short video series. Each video profiles one of NASCA's young award winners, as they talk about their biggest challenges and successes.
Title: Dirty Power 2: Burnt Country
Commissioned by Greenpeace Australia Pacific
Released May 2020
Written, Co-directed, Co-edited by Kim Paul Nguyen
15 minute documentary. Covers government and conservative media's attempts to hide the role of climate change in the Black Summer bushfires.
Title: Non-Communicable Disease Advocate Profiles
Commissioned by the NCD Alliance
Released November 2019
Camera, Sound, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
Two 3 minute videos. Profiles of health advocates in Ghana and India, promoting greater action to support patients.
Title: Dirty Power
Commissioned by Greenpeace Australia Pacific
Released May 2019
Written, Produced and Co-directed by Kim Paul Nguyen
15 minute documentary. Reveals the network connecting the coal industry, the Murdoch Press and Australia's Coalition government.
Title: Make the Minutes Count
Commissioned by Greenpeace Australia Pacific
Released March 2019
Produced by Kim Paul Nguyen
3 minute video. Award-winning performance poet Solli Raphael shares his powerful poem about addressing climate change and protecting the environment.
Title: Sick of Plastic
Commissioned by Greenpeace Australia Pacific
Released June 2018
Concept and Creative Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
1 minute video. Comedic take on plastic pollution shows brutal reality for sea life.
Title: Making a Difference
Commissioned by the Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy
Released Jan 2018
Camera, Sound, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
30 minute documentary. 5 Bhutanese young people to find out how they can help their country, exploring many of the new civil society organisations that have emerged in the last few years.
Title: Patient Advocate Profiles
Commissioned by the NCD Alliance
Released December 2017
Camera, Sound, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
Video series. Each video follows the story of a patient advocate as they work their way from patient to leader.
Title: Waciwaci, Climate Impacts in Fiji
Commissioned by the Lancet Countdown
Released November 2017
Camera, Sound, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
5 minute video. Tells the story of Waciwaci village on Lakeba Island in the far South East of the Fijian Archipelago. There the sea is washing away the land forcing the village to relocate to higher ground.
Title: The sinkhole ghost town
Released September 2017
Camera, Sound, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
3 minute video. In the middle of nowhere Louisiana, a town lies empty and abandoned after a sinkhole opened up next to it years before.
Title: "Fell in Love with Blue"
A music video
Released January 2017
Camera, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
3 minute video. For Jon Thomsen. Shot in Coogee where Jon used to busk.
Title: Solar School
Commissioned by Fundacion ALTENER
Released November 2016
Camera, Sound, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
2.30 minute video. Shot in the mountains of Costa Rica at the Escuela Chimirol, a rural primary school that runs exclusively on solar power.
Title: El Luchador (The Fighter)
Commissioned by Amigos de le Tierra (El Salvador)
Released October 2016
Camera, Sound, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
3.30 minute video. Carlos is a small-holding farmer in El Salvador, fighting to keep the soil and water safe from agro-toxic chemicals being used by corporate farming giants like Monsanto.
Title: We All Have Dreams
Commissioned by Mercado Global (Guatemala)
Released September 2016
Camera, Sound, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
Design by Anna Scharf
2.30 minute video. Cristobalina tells her story of growing up in the Guatemalan mountains without education and her mission to ensure her daughters get to follow their dreams.
Title: The Taste of Change
Commissioned by NCDFREE
Released August 2016
Camera, Sound, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
10 minute documentary. Tells the story of a doctor, a nutritionist and a patient all trying to deal with sugar addiction in Mexico.
Title: What Remains
Released July 2016
Camera, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
3 minute video. Abandoned places across America's south.
Title: Stream of Life
Commissioned by Balanced Rock
Released April 2016
Camera, Sound, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
1.30 minute video. "Stream of Life" is a Bengali poem from Gitanjali written by Indian Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Shot in Yosemite National Park in California, USA.
Title: Ruffling Feathers
Commissioned by Festival21
Released December 2015
Camera, Sound, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
8 minute documentary. Madeleine Scott started egg farming at 8 years old, now 21 she's trying to keep the farm going.
Title: Sowing Seeds
Commissioned by NCDFREE
Released September 2015
Camera, Sound, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
9 minute documentary. Refugees from Myanmar have found a new home at the Werribee Park community garden.
Title: Trees Falling in the Forest
Major Publication for my double Masters at Monash University
Released December 2012
Camera, Sound, Editing and Direction by Kim Paul Nguyen
72 minute documentary. This film follows the stories of 6 climate activists, all going to extremes to get the media to pay attention to the climate crisis.
