# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/trinh-t-minh-ha
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:49:32.268Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/trinh-t-minh-ha"
name: "Trinh T. Minh-ha"
slug: "trinh-t-minh-ha"
description: "Trinh T. Minh-ha is a Vietnamese filmmaker, writer, literary theorist, composer, and professor. She has been making films since the 1980s and is best known for her films Reassemblage and Surname Viet Given Name Nam. She has received several awards and grants, including the American Film Institute's Maya Deren Award, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the California Arts Council. Her films have been the subject of twenty retrospectives."
tagline: "Vietnamese-US American post-colonial difference theorist, composer and filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Trinh_T._Minh-ha.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.850616
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0872954/"
    handle:    "nm0872954"
sources:
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    title: "ترينه تى. مينه ها"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Trinh T. Minh-ha"
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    title: "Trinh T. Minh Ha"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Թրինհ Թ. Մինհ-հա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "トリン・T・ミンハ"
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    title: "Trinh T. Minh-ha"
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    title: "Trinh T. Minh-ha"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1104893"
    title: "Trịnh T. Minh-hà"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump