![](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://cctubes.com/video/nanitic/&media=https://cctubes.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/nanitic.jpg&description=Captions provided by CCTubes - Captioning the Internet! na·nit·ic / adjective: "The first brood of worker ants produced by a queen ant using only the reserved nutrition in her body. Nanitics shoulder the initial fate of the colony and are often underfed due to the conditions in colony building. Thus, nanitics may be smaller in size from later workers ants to optimize the survival of the group..." — But what happens to the colony when the queen dies? 9 year-old Trang starts to shift out of oblivion as her aunt Ut tends to Grandma, who lies in her deathbed in the living room. How can a single body occupy so much space? What will happen when Grandma is gone?
NANITIC
Starring : Kylie Le, Ly Pham & Van Pham
Written & directed by : Carol Nguyen
Produced by : Marie Lytwynuk & Carol Nguyen
Line Producer : Louis-Emmanuel Gangé-Brochu
Cinematographer : Alexandre Nour-Desjardins
Art Director : Estelle Tang
Sound Designer : Giulio Trejo-Martinez
Music : Arie Van de Ven
Editor : Carol Nguyen
Colourist : William Albu
50+ Festivals and awards including:
Toronto International Film Festival — Official Selection 2022 *IMDbPro Share Her Journey Short Cuts Award
Berlinale Generation Kplus, Germany — Official Selection 2022
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen — Official Selection 2023
Aspen Shortfest — Official Selection 2023
TIFF Canada's Top Ten — Official Selection 2023
(Learn more : bit.ly/3L6Wm4l)
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BIO
Carol Nguyen is a Vietnamese Canadian filmmaker, born and raised in Toronto, now based in Montreal. Her films often explore the subjects of cultural identity, silence and memory. Her newest film "Nanitic" (2022) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was selected for Berlinale Generation Kplus 2023. Her previous film “No Crying at the Dinner Table” (2019) also screened at TIFF alongside IDFA, where she was additionally invited as the Opening Night speaker. In 2020, “No Crying” received the Jury Prize for Short Documentary at South by Southwest (SXSW). Carol is a 2018 Sundance Ignite fellow and a TIFF Share Her Journey ambassador. Recently, her project “The Visitors” was selected for the IDFA Project Space 2022, a development lab for first and second-time directors. Today, Carol is writing and directing several projects, including two feature films.
Follow Carol Nguyen: instagram.com/carolnguyen_
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CONTACT
Distribution & International Sales : Travelling, les films qui voyagent / Attn : Tam Dan Vu / coordo@travellingdistribution.com
www.travellingdistribution.com
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! na·nit·ic / adjective: “The first brood of worker ants produced by a queen ant using only the reserved nutrition in her body. Nanitics shoulder the initial fate of the colony and are often underfed due to the conditions in colony building. Thus, nanitics may be smaller in size from later workers ants to optimize the survival of the group…” — But what happens to the colony when the queen dies? 9 year-old Trang starts to shift out of oblivion as her aunt Ut tends to Grandma, who lies in her deathbed in the living room. How can a single body occupy so much space? What will happen when Grandma is gone?
NANITIC
Starring : Kylie Le, Ly Pham & Van Pham
Written & directed by : Carol Nguyen
Produced by : Marie Lytwynuk & Carol Nguyen
Line Producer : Louis-Emmanuel Gangé-Brochu
Cinematographer : Alexandre Nour-Desjardins
Art Director : Estelle Tang
Sound Designer : Giulio Trejo-Martinez
Music : Arie Van de Ven
Editor : Carol Nguyen
Colourist : William Albu
50+ Festivals and awards including:
Toronto International Film Festival — Official Selection 2022 *IMDbPro Share Her Journey Short Cuts Award
Berlinale Generation Kplus, Germany — Official Selection 2022
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen — Official Selection 2023
Aspen Shortfest — Official Selection 2023
TIFF Canada’s Top Ten — Official Selection 2023
(Learn more : bit.ly/3L6Wm4l)
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BIO
Carol Nguyen is a Vietnamese Canadian filmmaker, born and raised in Toronto, now based in Montreal. Her films often explore the subjects of cultural identity, silence and memory. Her newest film “Nanitic” (2022) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was selected for Berlinale Generation Kplus 2023. Her previous film “No Crying at the Dinner Table” (2019) also screened at TIFF alongside IDFA, where she was additionally invited as the Opening Night speaker. In 2020, “No Crying” received the Jury Prize for Short Documentary at South by Southwest (SXSW). Carol is a 2018 Sundance Ignite fellow and a TIFF Share Her Journey ambassador. Recently, her project “The Visitors” was selected for the IDFA Project Space 2022, a development lab for first and second-time directors. Today, Carol is writing and directing several projects, including two feature films.
Follow Carol Nguyen: instagram.com/carolnguyen_
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CONTACT
Distribution & International Sales : Travelling, les films qui voyagent / Attn : Tam Dan Vu / [email protected]
www.travellingdistribution.com
facebook.com/travellingdistribution
instagram.com/travellingdistribution
