Bui Thac Chuyen was born in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1968.
He began his film career in 1991 with the short film Eternal Sadness, which won the Golden Swift Wing Prize at the 1st National Viet Nam Festival of Short Movies.
His debut feature film, Living in Fear was awarded the Asian New Talent Prize for Best Film in the 2006 Shanghai International Film Festival.
Set in the poor Mekong Delta coastal village of Thơm Rơm, the film follows the lives of three women, whose love lives are unusual and unique to their nature. The film is narrated from Hau's perspective, as she experiences life with a husband who only has eyes for another woman, and develops her growing friendship with her rival.
The film tells the scary, haunting adventures of three medical university students who accidentally discover a species of wormwood that is made with human blood in an ancient wooden box containing a piece of withered tree and amulet. He placed it deep in a messy bookshelf in Professor Hoan Sinh's house. That is wormwood blood, a secret medicine of the Sang La people.
Soon after her wedding, newlywed Duyen's excitement begins to fade as she realizes her young husband is not only naive but overly occupied by his job and doting mother. As her marriage goes unconsummated and her emotional isolation grows, she reaches out to her closest girlfriend, Cam, who secretly desires her, but pushes her into the arms of a dangerous and provocative suitor. The resulting infidelity puts Duyen in a precarious love triangle, challenging her notions of conventional relationships and also the stability of her new family.
In Bình Thuận, a South Central coastal province in Vietnam, a former Republic soldier turned farmer went into clearing landmines for over ten years, reclaiming the soil for himself and others, generating also controversies around the legitimacy and safety of his practice.
In Chase Of The Windy Devil Gang tells the story of a group of criminals under the notorious titular group —one of the city’s most feared. On land and waters alike, even within the walls of ordinary homes—nowhere seems safe from their reign of terror. Like shadows riding the wind, they appear and vanish, always waiting for the next moment to strike. We follow the footsteps of Lieutenant Bình, a policeman tracing the elusive maneuvers of the Windy Devil Gang: from bustling city streets and chaotic nightclubs to river docks and towering mountain caves, encountering the faces of good and evil, past and present, deceit and innocence. As the chase seems to know no bounds, the possibilities of discovery dissolve into infinity.