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A Clean Slate

LightReel Film Fest 2024
U.S. | 2023 | 14 min | DC Premiere

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A Clean Slate

DIRECTOR
Tran Hoang Calvin

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER(S)
Lana Link, Rob Pfaltzgraff, Nick Reid

PRODUCER(S)
William Docsa, Kristina Kendall

EDITOR
Tran Hoang Calvin

A woman with dreadlocks and wearing a blue shirt is sitting in front of a laptop, gesturing with her hand, and speaking to someone off-camera.

This uplifting documentary follows Shanyeill McCloud’s work helping the formerly incarcerated expunge their records and start their lives again.

A woman with dreadlocks sitting at a desk in an office, holding a phone, with numerous framed certificates and posters on the wall behind her.
A woman with braided hair sits in a room with a window and floral wallpaper, wearing a red blazer and black shirt.
A man wearing glasses extends his hands toward the camera, facial expression intense, against a plain gray background.

Tran Hoang Calvin

Director, A Clean Slate

Tran Hoang Calvin is a director/producer who graduated from New York University Tisch, with a Bachelors in Fine Arts in Film and Television Production. After graduating, his focus has been in the developing field of new media including social media strategy, memetics, and virtual reality. After working at many major media companies including Anonymous Content, Decon-Mass Appeal, Vice Media, and ABC News, he co-founded both Nodehaus Media, an animation studio and production company driven by Gen Z artists and entrepreneurs, and Dolphinger Memetics, a marketing research lab. He is the director of the upcoming MPI-supported documentary "A Clean Slate," about the life-changing impact expungement.

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