Background
Hong Khaou was born in Cambodia, but his family moved to the United Kingdom in the 1980s as political refugees.
Hong Khaou was born in Cambodia, but his family moved to the United Kingdom in the 1980s as political refugees.
Hong studied Bachelor (Honours) Production at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in Farnham, formerly the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, graduating in 1997.
He is best known for his debut feature film Lilting and the short films Summer and Spring. He arrived in the United Kingdom at the age of eight, having first moved from Cambodia, to Vietnam. His debut feature film Lilting was produced under the London micro-budget scheme Microwave, and was released on 8 August in the United Kingdom by distributors Artificial Eye.
His short film Spring played at both the Sundance Festival, and the Berlin International Festival in 2011, with his previous short Summer also having premiered at Berlin in 2006.
He is the recipient of the 2014 Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global making Award for his upcoming feature film Monsoon.