About
Base Saigon
is where Vietnamese brands learn to travel
Founded as Rice by Chí-An De Leo and Joshua Breidenbach in Ho Chi Minh City in 2011, before the market was ready and before the rules were written, Base Saigon was built on the belief that design and storytelling can help Vietnamese brands define themselves and move through the world. Today, in a country accelerating in real time and anchoring the network in Asia, the studio — based in a modernist 1960s house in central Saigon — positions local brands globally and global brands locally with cultural precision. Base Saigon shapes brands including Marou Chocolate, Pizza 4P’s, UNICEF Vietnam, Uniqlo, Uber and Baemin, and, beyond client work, its team of thirty creatives invests in design education, local events and publishing. Not as a side project, but as a responsibility.
Meet the basers
Ange Linh’s path to filmmaking began with design. Growing up in France, she was drawn first to the world of graphic design, she soon discovered her love for images in motion – the way rhythm, cuts, and movement could shape emotion. That passion led her to Gobelins in Paris, where she specialized in Motion Design, and later to French production agencies and the Kourtrajmé school, where she refined her skills in editing and directing. Each step deepened her eye for storytelling, and the belief that visuals can carry both beauty and meaning.
In 2023, she moved to Vietnam to reconnect with her roots and expand her creative horizons. As Head of Film and Motion at BaseSGN, she brings together everything she’s learned – her design sensibility, her motion craft, her filmmaker’s curiosity – to create videos that resonate across cultures. Off set, she’s always observing, always collecting fragments of life and turning them into stories, because for her, film is as much about capturing moments as it is about making them last.
