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Filming has recently wrapped on the upcoming short film by Andrew Chi Nguyen entitled “The Woman with a Name or Two”. Described as a Spaghetti Western meets a Japanese Samurai movie; production began in mid-October filming into late December.  A recent graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Arts and Cinema program, Andrew began working on the movie and two other projects (which are also in post-production) while still in school and in a post on his personal Instagram page joked “can’t wait to share it with everyone sometime between now and 2037”. On a serious note, the estimated 10 minute film should be available around Summer 2024.  The plot is still unknown, but from the title viewers can expect a post-apocalyptic Western but with a twist! A female lead!! Something not often seen in the genre.

Andrew Chi Nguyen, a student of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Cinema Arts program, continues filming on his upcoming project The Woman with a Name or Two , a post-apocalyptic Western short film. While the plot line is being kept under wraps, a source confirms the movie will be about ten minutes in length and is inspired by Spaghetti Westerns and Japanese Samurai films. Written and directed by Nguyen, the film’s production design will be carried out by Leilani Curran, who also makes a cameo in the film as loudmouth “tough-as-nails” bartender Trudy of Trudy’s Bar, a classic Western inspired bar in the apocalypse, with scrip only payments for such “delights” like rat soup and moonshine. Musician and filmmaker James Dew Hall also makes an appearance as one of the bar’s disgruntled customers. Amaya Fuentes serves as a makeup artist. Frequent collaborator Sophia Scotto serves as the film’s boom operator. Brock Cooper will also be producing.