Dương Diệu Linh is a Vietnamese film director renowned for her distinctive storytelling, which seamlessly blends hyper-realistic, slice-of-life narratives with elements of magical realism, drawing deeply from Southeast Asian mythology and superstitions. Linh’s debut feature, Don’t Cry, Butterfly (2024), which won the Grand Prix and the Most Innovative Film Award at the Venice Critics Week. Her earlier series of short films also garnered international acclaim, competing and winning awards at prestigious film festivals around the world. She has just completed the MFA in Film Production and Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, where she continued to experiment with narrative structures and refined her distinctive cinematic voice.