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Viet Nam News SEOUL — Vietnamese filmmaker Cao Thị Hương won the Grand Prix award of the ASEAN-Korea Youth Short Film Festival with her work Hallo World on Saturday. The ceremony for the competition and the 2018 ASEAN-Korea Academic Essay Contest, both launched by the ASEAN-Korea Centre, was held at the Seoul Global Culture Centre, South Korea. “Recognising the importance of the future leaders of ASEAN-Korea relations, the ASEAN-Korea Centre has been carrying out diverse youth exchange programmes,” said Lee Hyuk, Secretary General of the ASEAN-Korea Centre. “Both the ‘ASEAN-Korea Youth Short Film Festival’ and the ‘ASEAN-Korea Academic Contest’ have been successful youth exchange programmes, gaining attention from both ASEAN and Korea. I hope that the two events will provide a meaningful platform for the young generations of ASEAN and Korea to share their perspectives and insights to make a bright future … [Read more...] about Vietnamese youth won Korean short film competition
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Vietnamese film The Third Wife wins Best Film award at Kolkata film fest
A scene from The Third Wife, directed by Nguyen Phuong Anh. In the international category, The Third Wife competed with 14 other films to claim the prize. A strong candidate in the category was the Egyptian film Yomeddine, which was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes International Film Festival (France). The Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) has been organized annually in Kolkata, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, since 1995. This is the second oldest international film festival in India. The event this year was held November 10-17. At the closing ceremony of the film festival, Tran Thi Bich Ngoc, the film producer, received the prize on behalf of director Nguyen Phuong Anh (Ash Mayfair) from film producer Shoojit Sircar and actress Tabu Hashmi. Tran Thi Bich Ngoc (in red), at the Kolkatta International Film Festival. Ngoc congratulated the film crew, and expressed her surprise and happiness at the … [Read more...] about Vietnamese film The Third Wife wins Best Film award at Kolkata film fest
Vietnamese film The Third Wife wins Toronto film fest prize
By An Nguyen  September 19, 2018 | 10:30 am GMT+7 The Third Wife, directed by Nguyen Phuong Anh, has won an award at the 43rd Toronto International Film Festival. Entering the film festival (TiFF) in the Discovery strand, The Third Wife by director Nguyen Phuong Anh (Ash Mayfair) received the NETPAC award for International Asian Film Premiere. The NETPAC award is instituted by the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema, an organization of 29 participating countries. Every year, it presents awards at certain film festivals. World renowned directors who have received this award include Lee Chang Dong and Kim Ki Duk from South Korea, and Jia Zhangke from China. The film features the life of May (Nguyen Phuong Tra My), a 14-year-old girl entering into an arranged marriage with an affluent middle-aged man. As the third wife in the family, May begins to learn family principles from the first wife Ha (Tran Nu Yen Khe) and second wife Xuan (Maya). As My gets … [Read more...] about Vietnamese film The Third Wife wins Toronto film fest prize
Vietnamese documentary wins at Top Shorts film festival
Painter Nguyễn Thu Thủy presents her mural to soldiers, a scene in the film directed by Nguyễn Nghiêm Nhan. — Photo courtesy of the artistViet Nam News HÀ NỘI — A documentary about the ceramic art of Nguyễn Thu Thủy won two prizes at the Top Shorts online film festival, the organiser announced recently on its website. The film Thu Thủy - A Dream of Ceramics was directed by Nguyễn Nghiêm Nhan from Việt Nam Television during 2006-17. It tracks the career of painter Thủy, who has created various notable artworks, such as the Ceramic Road along Red River (Guinness World Record for being the largest ceramic mosaic in the world), Mirror House in downtown Hà Nội (silver trophy at the International A’ Design Awards 2018) and a mural of Vietnamese trees and flowers at Đà Nẵng International Airport (a bronze at the 10th International Design Awards in Los Angeles, US). … [Read more...] about Vietnamese documentary wins at Top Shorts film festival
Vietnamese wins Top Shorts film awards
Top Shorts' certificate of Best Trailer presented to director Nguyen Nghiem Nhan (Photo:topshorts.net) Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnamese film ‘Thu Thuy – Mosaic Dreams’, directed by Nguyen Nghiem Nhan, has won two awards at the Top Shorts monthly competition for April. Director Nguyen Nghiem Nhan of Vietnam Television received the “Best Trailer” tittle, while his real-life character – painter Nguyen Thu Thuy – was honoured with the “Inspiring Woman in a film” award. (Photo: topshorts.net) The documentary was filmed at different periods since 2006, following several public art projects by Thuy, which began with a mosaic road along the Red River dyke in Hanoi. The project, which aimed to decorate 6km of the cement dike protecting the city from the river, was carried out by both Vietnamese and international artists in celebration of the 1,000th anniversary of the capital. Thuy later did several other works in Truong Sa Lon island (Truong … [Read more...] about Vietnamese wins Top Shorts film awards