Happy Canvas is a content creation company located in Ho Chi Minh City.    Our focus is on development and production of feature films and digital content for the local market with universal appeal.   We strive to collaborate with innovative storytellers to position ourselves to the forefront of entertainment in an exciting and new market.

Recent Highlights

DAYDREAMERS (2023)

Thriller, Horror, Drama

Distributed by Lotte Entertainment

Release Date: December, 08, 2023

After a night out in the big city, Nhat a reclusive vampire is pressured by Marco, his older brother to kill a teenage girlafter she accidentally discovers their true identity; But his defiance of the vampire law sets him against  his older brother – in the end, only one will survive.

SISTER SISTER (2019)

Suspense, Thriller

Distributed by CGV

Kim, a late night radio talk show host offers a room to a runaway teen at her opulent home, what she doesn’t bargain for is the eighteen year old reignites the passion from her failing marriage and has ulterior motives which forces Kim to face her darkest secrets.

* Osaka Asian Film Festival (2022)
* Winner of the ABC-TV Award (OAFF 2022)
* Busan International Film Festival (BIFF 2020)

The Housemaid (2016)

Released in US by IFC Films (February 2018)

| Horror, Romance | 16 September 2016 (Vietnam)

When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the vengeful ghost of his dead wife… who is out for blood.

  • Special Jury Award (LAFF)  – Nhung Kate (Best Actress)
  • Highest Box Office (Vietnamese Horror)
  • Macau International Film Festival 2016
  • Los Angeles Film Festival 2017 (North American Premier)

How to Fight in Six Inch Heels (2013)

| Comedy | 17 October 2013 (Vietnam)

A neurotic junior fashion designer from New York discovers her fiancé, KIET, working overseas in Vietnam may be having an affair with a supermodel. With jealousy burning and her wedding date on the horizon, she conjures up a scheme to achieve the ultimate makeover, investigate the supermodels and infiltrate the high-fashion world of Saigon in order to catch him in the act. But her plan backfires when she really befriends the three supermodels and discovers that there is more to life than living through a series of checklists.

  • Opening Night Film – CAAMFEST (San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival) 2014
  • Silver Kite Award – Best Picture 2014
  • Golden Kite Award –  Best Actress, Kathy Uyen 2014
  • US Theatrical Release 2015