Lucy Vang & Ricky Vue

If you have a story to tell, and it’s really stuck in here and you really need to let it out, I think you should just do it. And it doesn’t matter if it’s for 10,000 people to see or just for you.Lucy Vang and Ricky Vue are a Twin Cities-based creative team whose partnership brings together visual storytelling, production, technology, and creative support. Vang is a Hmong American photographer, filmmaker, editor, and creative director whose work is strongly influenced by music, popular culture, and her experiences as a Hmong American woman. She developed her filmmaking skills through hands-on mentorship and training with the APIA film program and In Progress, working with artists including Kazua Melissa Vang and Kang Vang. Her creative practice includes photography, narrative filmmaking, music videos, post-production, and collaborative projects that seek to empower Hmong women and younger generations of artists.Vue works alongside Vang as a production partner, assisting with lighting, equipment, technical problem-solving, logistics, and the many behind-the-scenes needs of a production. Largely self-taught, he has also explored digital media and livestreaming and brings a technology- and business-oriented perspective to their partnership. Together, Vang and Vue demonstrate the collaborative nature of filmmaking, combining different strengths to support one another’s creative ambitions while encouraging emerging storytellers to take risks, use the tools available to them, and begin telling the stories that matter to them.