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Nick Ut

Nick Ut

Vietnamese-American photographer

Sep 21, 2026

3:08
thinking that,
3:09
I mean, I kind of started my film journey there, just being like, well, theater was fun, but I really loved movies, but I just never knew, like, how would you have a career in the film business if you didn't live in New York or Los Angeles? Right.
3:27
So, you know, I...
3:30
I fell in love with it when I, uh, I was able to go to a, at the time it was a summer, um, like workshop intensive in New York with the New York film Academy.
3:42
Um, and I think they had like a, I think it was like something like a six week program.
3:47
I'm not sure if it was that long or maybe like just a few weeks, but, um, it was in my sophomore year of college.
3:55
college when we had a summer break where I went up there and was like and they just kind of put you through this intensive program where I was like oh you can do this for a living like you can stay up till like three in the morning trying to edit your shitty like short film that you don't know how to put together and but you get, you can make a living doing this.

23 MINS LATER

27:33
It has to be made, but why?

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