Gems Crew e.V.
— Member since 2018

Dreh’s Um Academy— Alumni

PROJECTS

Tea Room Cinema
— Film Club

Somewhere In-between Jam
— Dance Festival

PERFORMANCE

KIM

— Performer (Polymer DMT)

CONTACT

lanmi.online@gmail..com
IG @lelanmi_

EDUCATION

Diploma in Media Arts (Film)
Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM), 2023–present

RESIDENCIES & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Young Curators Program
Talking Shorts, 2025
Selected participant in an international curatorial intensive; developed and presented a short film program:

Dreaming still, despite the world

New Curators Program
Filmhaus Köln, 2024–2025
Selected participant in a curatorial development program; co-curated a public film festival:

Where The Wind Scatters Seeds

Film Education Program
Dreh’s Um, 2021–2023
2-year Directing Mentorship
Selected participant in a film development program for Vietnamese-German perspectives; directed a documentary and music video.

Darkblue, how I feel

Motherland

STAGE EXPERIENCE

Performer — Stage Piece “KIM”
Polymer DMT, 2023-2025

Touring: Bundeskunsthalle (Bonn), PACT Zollverein (Essen), HELLERAU European Centre for the Arts (Dresden)

Taiwan Highlights: TIRAF Taoyuan Iron Rose Arts Festival (Taoyuan) + Tainan Arts Festival (Tainan).

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Script Continuity & Art Department
International On-Set Film Production “I Can’t Save You. I Can’t Save Everyone”
— Bangkok, 2026

Production Assistant
Short Film “Floraison”
— Cologne, 2025

Casting Assistant
Feature Film Project “Malibu” (Screenplay awarded for Deutscher Drehbuchpreis)
— Cologne, 2024

Set Unit Management Trainee
New Motion Shadowing Program — Netflix Series “Alphamänner”
— Cologne, 2024

Set Photographer
Documentary Short “Home Is Where The Starfruits Taste Sour”
— Vietnam, 2022

Intern Assistant Director
ZDFneo “WIR”
— Berlin, 2022

PANELS & TALKS

Artist Talk — Viet-German Community (Post-Show Talk, KIM)
Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, 2025

Panelist — Access & Diversity in Film Industry (Dreh’s Um Panel)
Branchentag, Achtung Berlin Filmfestival , 2024

Speaker — (Post-) Migrant Youth Engagement (Jugendstil trifft... Politik und Stiftungen)
Stiftung Bildung Berlin, 2023

TEACHING & WORKSHOPS

Peer Mentor – Youth Film Workshops
Dreh’s Um Academy, 2025-2026

Dance Workshop Facilitator (Breaking)
2025

Dance Teacher (Hip-Hop Foundations)
2020

PRESS & FEATURES

Magazin Feature — Interview pp. 12–17
Jugendstil*, 2023

On Somewhere In-Between Jam: post-migrant perspectives, dance culture, community and cultural appropriation.

Weil Tanz politisch ist

Radio Feature — Music Selector
Music Of Color, 2021

Chai Times Magazine

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