Kate Villevoye is an award-winning Dutch-born, Hanoi-based filmmaker. Previously in-house at UK publishing platforms DAZED and VICE’s i-D Magazine, Kate has captured stories exploring cultural and socio-economic themes unfolding globally. Her work spans editorial and commercial commissions as well as in-depth personal studies.

Her films have screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Barbican and Transatlantyk Film Festival, and has been featured on Vimeo Staff Picks, National Geographic Society, Aeon, NOWNESS and Deutsche Welle among others. She has made films in collaboration with brands including The North Face, Google, Stella McCartney, and David Zwirner Gallery.

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Awards

Lovie Award for Best Documentary Series, 2023
Shortlisted for the Netflix Short Documentary Talent Fund, 2021

Select screenings

Chronic Youth Film Festival, The Barbican, London, UK
International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL
Transatlantyk Film Festival, Lodz, PL
Into The Great Wide Open, Vlieland, NL
Silhouette Film Festival, Paris, FR

Latest Press

Why a single tree, uprooted in a typhoon, means so much to one man in Hanoi Aeon, 2025
Portrait of a Place: Mr Cuong’s Banyan Tree Nowness Asia, 2025
Two women meet on Zoom every day during the Covid lockdown The Short Doc Club, 2024

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Google  |  Stella McCartney  |  ITV  |   National Geographic Society  |  The North Face   |  Acute Art   |   David Zwirner Gallery   |   The Face    |   LG   |  MM6 Maison Margiela   |   Samsung   |  The Institute of Coding