There are tattoo artists, and then there is Tran Ngoc.

What makes the woman from Hanoi, Vietnam so unique, apart from her talent, is her canvas: she has become known in her country for crafting tattoos around scars on the bodies of her clients.

Ngoc’s work is explored in the Oscar-contending short documentary They Call Me the Tattoo Witch , directed and produced by Lindsay Nyman . The film has won prizes at festivals around the world, including Best Documentary Short at the City of Angels Film Festival; Best Documentary Short and Best Cinematography at the Worldwide Women’s Film Festival in Phoenix, AZ; and Best Short Documentary at the Carmarthen Bay Film Festival in UK, among many others.

Watch the film’s trailer below.

“Tran Ngoc transforms scars into art, literally working ov

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