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Episode 75: Thanh Tran
Thanh Tran is an Amerasian Vietnamese and Black filmmaker, music artist, and community organizer from Sacramento, California. He co-founded Uncuffed , an award-winning podcast amplifying incarcerated voices, and ForwardThis Productions, one of the first film collectives led entirely by incarcerated people. He is now the Founder & CEO of New Krma Media, a social enterprise supporting system-impacted artists through film, music, and cultural strategy. Its flagship initiative, the Returning Filmmaker Fellowship, provides formerly incarcerated filmmakers with training, resources, and paid opportunities to build sustainable careers and complete original films. Thanh is a Film Independent Amplifier Fellow and directs Finding Má , a feature-length documentary following his family’s search for their unhoused mother after decades of separation by foster care and incarceration. He also serves on the Advisory Council of the New Breath Foundation and the Board of the Andrus Family Foundation.
