Andy Diep

Andy Diep (they/them) is a non-binary filmmaker and artist based in Sydney. Their background is Cambodian and they are a 2nd generation immigrant whose parents grew up in the Khmer Rouge and moved to Sydney’s Western Suburbs in the 1980s.

Their work deals with intergenerationality, gender, sexuality and the immigrant experience in Australia. Andy is a graduate of the UTS Masters of Media Arts and Production and is a current AFTRS Masters of Screen Arts: Directing student.

In 2022, Andy won the Queer Screen PitchOff for Happy New Year, Ms. Luna which recently had its world premiere at the Mardi Gras Film Festival 2023. Their latest short film, The Whip, is currently doing the rounds in festivals and recently had its premiere at the Australian Independent Film Festival in Brisbane.

Their other work is spread between commercial/fashion directing and cinematography work and crewing on larger film sets including Shang-chi, Thor: Love and Thunder and Furiosa in camera department, then would go on to make video art for smaller independent galleries while acting as a videographer for queer night clubs in Sydney.

They would eventually move onto directing, after graduating from UTS’ Master of Media Arts and Production and being awarded the “Lawrie Fitzgerald Prize in Innovation and Creativity in Sound and/or Film” for their work on Tokophobia, a film dealing the fear of pregnancy, and a man who becomes pregnant as a single father.

In 2023, Andy was invited by Palme D’or winning filmmaker and artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul to be part of the PlayLabs Creator’s Workshop in Yucatan to learn filmmaking and make a film under Apichatpong’s guidance.