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Khoa Do Khoa Do i(A88633 works by) (a.k.a. Anh Khoa Tran)
Born: Established: 1979
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Vietnam,
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Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1980
Heritage: Vietnamese
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BiographyHistory

As a young child Khoa Do left Vietnam on a fishing boat with his family. After staying in refugee hostels, the family settled in south west Sydney, New South Wales. Khoa Do received a scholarship to attend high school at St. Aloysius, and went on to study Arts-Law at the University of Sydney.

Khoa Do worked as an English teacher and job-seeking-skills volunteer amongst youths living in Cabramatta, and in 2000 he was awarded the Young Australian of the Year Award for his services in drama and working with youth in south west Sydney.

He wrote Delivery Day, which was nominated for an AFI Award and was screened at over twenty film festivals, winning numerous awards including the Golden Leopard for Best Short Film at Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland 2002.

In 2002, Khoa Do began voluntary work with disadvantaged youth at Cabramatta's Open Family Youth Social Services Centre in Sydney, New South Wales. He was asked to teach them film-making and decided to make a film with them. They developed a script based partially on their own experiences, with all the major cast members first time actors. The film, titled The Finished People, premiered at the Montreal Film Festival 2003 and was released by Dendy Cinemas.

Footy Legends, also set in the western suburbs of Sydney was released in 2006.

Khoa Do is the brother of comedian Anh Do (q.v.).

Source: Australian of the year Awards website, http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/pages/index.asp (sighted 09/12/2008); Khoa Do website, khoa do.com.au (sighted 09/12/2008)

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2008 winner NSW Philip Parsons Fellowship for Emerging Playwrights for 'To 100 Years of Happiness'.
2005 winner Australian of the Year Awards Young Australian of the Year
2001 recipient Centenary Medal For service as a Young Australian of the Year finalist.

Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon Better Man ( dir. Khoa Do ) Australia : FremantleMedia Australia Bravado Productions SBS , 2013 Z1917583 2013 series - publisher film/TV crime

'Exactly how much risk would you take to save your brother?

'For Van Nguyen the answer was whatever it takes, and the devastating consequence of his attempt to traffic heroin from Cambodia to Australia via a change of planes in Singapore was that the 396 grams of drugs that he was discovered carrying was enough to incur the death penalty - 26 times over.' (Source: Screen Australia)

2014 nominated Logie Awards Most Outstanding Miniseries or Telemovie
form y separately published work icon The Finished People ( dir. Khoa Do ) Australia : Open Family Australia , 2003 Z1548243 2003 single work film/TV crime (taught in 1 units) 'The boundaries between fiction and reality merge as three stories of love, family and relationships play out amidst homelessness, drugs and crime. Set in infamous Cabramatta, widely regarded as the "crime and drug capital" of Australia, the film is a glimpse into the lives of those youths whom we notice living on the streets, but belong to the "brick wall" that we see but never hear from.' (Publicity flyer)
2003 won IF Awards Inside Film Awards Independent Spirit Award
2004 nominated Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Film Best Film
2004 nominated Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Original Screenplay
2004 nominated AWGIE Awards Film Award
2004 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards Best Original Screenplay
form y separately published work icon Delivery Day ( dir. Jane Manning ) Australia : Porchlight Films , 2001 Z1548247 2001 single work film/TV 'This short drama focuses on the experiences of second generation migrants in Australia. The story is based on 11-year-old Trang's attempts to get her Vietnamese mother to attend her school's parent-teacher interview, but it also happens to be delivery day for the garments in her mother's sweatshop and Mum is way too busy.' (National Film and Sound Archive record) According to an article in Integration no. 17 (2001-2003), Delivery Day is the first Vietnamese-Australian film to be made in Australia.
2001 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards Best Screenplay in Short Film
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