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Tam is an award-winning screenwriter (Love at the Grocery Store, 2009) living in Birmingham, Alabama. Tam began making films in the Spring of 2003, when he wrote and directed his first short film called “The Last Kiss”. Later that year, he was asked by Magic City Films to write a feature-length screenplay called “Under the Influence”, which was produced and has been acquired by an independent distributor. In April 2004, he completed another short film, a dramedy called “A Day In November”, which was a semi-finalist at the Sometime in October Film Festival. In 2005, he was twice a finalist in the Sidewalk Scramble filmmaking competition and also a finalist in the Sidewalk Sidewrite short screenplay competition. In Fall 2005, he completed a documentary about the Vietnam War entitled “A Reunion of Soldiers” which was screened at the 19th Annual National Congress of Vietnamese Americans convention and has been acquired by many colleges and universities. Also in 2008, one of his short scripts was selected as the winner of the Sidewrite Production Prize and was produced by Filament Artists. He continues to complete his feature-length screenplay, Southside Dragons, about two young Asian-Americans growing up in Southside, Alabama.
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