Stephane Gauger

Stephane Gauger
Stephane in 2015
Born	Saigon, South Vietnam
Occupation	Film director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer.

Stephane Gauger is a Vietnamese-American film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer.

Born in Saigon, South Vietnam to an American civilian contractor and his Vietnamese wife, Gauger was raised in Orange County, California and graduated from California State University, Fullerton in theatre arts and French literature.

He met cinematographer Matthew Libatique at CSUF and apprenticed under him as a camera loader and lighting technician. While working on thesis films at Loyola Marymount University, he met filmmaker brothers Tony Bui and Timothy Bui, and worked as a lighting technician on their feature films Three Seasons (1999) (directed by Tony Bui) and Green Dragon (2001) (directed by Timothy Bui). Gauger has also worked as a key grip on the feature film, Six-String Samurai (1998) (directed by Lance Mungia) and as a gaffer in the epic Vietnamese action film, The Rebel (2007), directed by Charlie Nguyen and as a gaffer in Ham Tran's Journey from the Fall (2006). Gauger has also served as a cinematographer on short films such as Moonlight (2006) (directed by Alice Chen), Good Bad Karma (2006) (directed by David Takemura), Jim and Kim (2010) (directed by Victor Teran), and Finding Gauguin (2010) (directed by Lee Donald Taicher). Gauger has also served as his own cinematographer on films he has directed including the music documentary Vietnam Overtures as well as Owl and the Sparrow (2007) and Saigon Electric (2011).