Mike Nguyen received his BFA in character animation at the California Institute of the Arts in 1988. Since then, he has worked in the feature animation film industry for over 10 years as an animator, for major studios such as Disney, DreamWorks, and Warner Bros. His film credits includes Supervising Animator on the critically acclaim Warner Bros' full length-animated feature "The Iron Giant".

In 2000, Mike Nguyen and An Hee Choi formed July Films for the purpose of producing independent traditionally animated features. The Burbank-based company is currently working on its first feature called "My Little World", reflecting on friendships and soccer from a heart warming childhood point-of-view, with a strong flavor of the Vietnamese cultural heritage.

Beside filmmaking, he also embarked on a self-book publishing journey, with his first illustrated book entitled "Issa", about the understanding of love, due to be out this September.

For more information, please visit http://www.julyfilms.com.

The traditional animation medium has always been a very captivating communication medium to the universal audiences and especially to children. Its magic lies in its ability to capture and convey not just reality but a sense of enhance reality, through its hand drawn animated movements.

Because of this mesmerizing communication capability, traditional animation has always generates a strong appeal from audiences world wide, thus making it an excellence and sometimes very lucrative commercial endeavor, especially to the children market.

But above and beyond its commerce sense, it is an art form capable of sharing the many wonderful thoughts about life and our human spirits. From this perspective, the independent traditional animated feature “My Little World” is aspiring to achieve.

“My Little World”, thought set in a make-believe world somewhere in East Asia, has a definite Vietnamese flavor in its undertone. Its hope is to express and share the very endearing and warmth feelings of friendship especially from the Vietnamese cultural perspective. At current, the 80 min. film is still in a work-in-progress stage, and actively seeking completion funding; once completed, it will look to have a world-wide theatrical release hopefully some time soon!