Hélène Lam Trong

Hélène Lam Trong (born 1982) is a French documentary filmmaker.^[1] Her 2023 documentary Daech, les enfants fantômes (ISIS, the Ghost Children) earned her the Albert Londres Prize for an audio-visual work.

Hélène Lam Trong
Born	1982 (age 42–43)
Nationality	French and Vietnamese
Education	Institute of Political Studies, Toulouse; CELSA Paris
Occupation	Documentary filmmaker
Years active	2014–present
Notable work	Daech, les enfants fantômes
Children	2
Awards	Albert Londres Prize of audiovisual 2023

Life and career

Lam Trong was born in 1982,^[2] to a French father and a Vietnamese mother. She has two children.^[3]

She earned her degree from the Institute of Political Studies in Toulouse in 2004 and later graduated from the School of Advanced Studies in Information and Communication Sciences at the CELSA Paris in 2006.^[4] In 2014, she helmed the documentary L’absente, maman est en prison (The Absent One, Mom is in Prison).^[5] In 2017, she took a stand against anti-Asian racism by creating the "Asiatique de France" music video alongside Frédéric Chau, Anggun, and other prominent French Asian personalities, generating considerable media attention.^[6][7]

Between 2018 and 2020, Lam Trong directed four documentaries aired on France 2: Joséphine H, Lilian Dubus et L'Enfant roux (Lilian Dubus and The Red-Haired Child), and Daech: les enfants du soupçons (ISIS: Children of Suspicion). In the documentary Réseaux de la colère" (Networks of Anger), she provided a voice for Thaïs d'Escufon and Joachim Son-Forget. In 2023, she directed the documentary Daech, les enfants fantômes (ISIS, the Ghost Children),^[8] produced by Fabienne Servan-Schreiber, earning a special mention from the Jury at the Justice Documentary Festival Paris^[9] and the Albert Londres Prize for an audio-visual work.^[1][10][11] In 2024, she directed Raqqa, l'ombre de Daech.^[12]

Filmography

Director

• 2024 :Raqqa, l'ombre de Daech
• 2023: Daech, les enfants fantômes
• 2020: Daech, les enfants du soupçon
• 2020: L’enfant roux
• 2020: Lilian Dubus
• 2018: Josephine H
• 2014: L’absente, maman est en prison

Distinctions

Awards

• 2023: Special Mention of Jury at Justice Documentary Festival Paris
• 2023: Albert Londres Prize of audiovisual