Viet Nam News Short film Vô Diện (Faceless) by Nguyễn Phan Thảo Đan is among 23 movies from all over the world to compete at Festival Corner’s SVA Computer Art at the Cannes Film Festival 2018 from May 8-19. The film won best short at the Vietnamese Cinematography Association Golden Kites Awards month. Đan has art in her genes. Her grandfather is established writer Ngô Thảo and her parents are a movie director and a producer who meet at one of the first private film studios in Việt Nam. Đan is currently working at Psyop Studio in New York. Minh Anh talks to her about her first Vietnamese award and her filmmaking. Has the Golden Kite award helped make you more established? Vô Diện is a result of my four-year studies in the New York-based School of Visual Arts’ Computer Art, Computer Animation and Visual Effects Department. I made the film in New York but I wanted to win an award in Việt Nam … [Read more...] about Young filmmaker to screen at Cannes
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Shake your life with events at Hanoi this weekend
The Hanoitimes - Don`t miss the film “La Chèvre” or Experimental Concert “The Drifting Motion” with a good music events this weekend. Come to the film screening “La Chèvre” (France, 1981, 95’) at L’Espace, Hanoi La Chèvre. The first of three buddy movies starring Gérard Depardieu and Pierre Richard as a comedy duo. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film of 1985 by the U.S. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. La Chèvre features Depardieu as the tough-guy private detective Campana, hired to find Marie, the daughter of a rich businessman, who has mysteriously disappeared while vacationing in Mexico. The case turns out to be complicated – several attempts to find her have already failed. A psychologist, Meyer, who works for the businessman, suggests a plan. Marie is known to be extremely unlucky and accident-prone; the psychologist advises sending someone equally … [Read more...] about Shake your life with events at Hanoi this weekend
Apple creates an iMac screen so sharp there’s almost nothing to watch on it
-inch iMac with a 14.7 million pixel display. Apple just released an insanely high-resolution screen with a computer inside of it. Here are the highlights of what you can do with the new iMac, according to Phil Schiller, the company's head of marketing: edit video and photos, read magazines ... um, look at the pretty app icons. "There has never been a display to show off that great new user interface as beautiful as this new Retina 5K display," Schiller says on stage at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California. "When you read text, it looks incredible, crisp and sharp, with magazine quality. If you work with photos, you'll have never worked on a desktop display with this level of detail." You may have noticed a major omission: watching video. That's because there's basically nothing available in 5K definition. Most movies and television shows are made for mainstream high-definition TVs like the one you probably have in your living room. The iMac's screen is seven times sharper … [Read more...] about Apple creates an iMac screen so sharp there’s almost nothing to watch on it
Social News Headlines 18/6
OVs join hands to protect homeland sovereignty Haiyang Shiyou-981 in Vietnam's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and continental shelf. Approximately 200 people wore T-shirts imprinted with national flags, hoisting flags and posters condemning China' actions under the Fukuoka guidelines and polices. The march attracted great attention from local media. It initially obtained its target for inspiring love for homeland among OVs, disseminating correct information about China's illegal acts to the international community and taking support from Japanese people for the legal struggle. A similar demonstration took place in Berlin, Germany, on the same day with the participation of 7,000 OVs and international friends. Le Hong Cuong, Head of the organising board, called on Vietnamese expatriates, in Germany and the rest of the world to join hands to support the Vietnamese Government's stance towards resolving the territorial dispute peacefully through diplomacy at the negotiating … [Read more...] about Social News Headlines 18/6
A flight to the north
Short Story (04-03-2007) A flight to the north by Phan Hon Nhien The memories still gave Vinh a lingering taste of their early days together, two years before. The excitement of the first conversations, the first moments of intense emotion, occasionally came back to him with powerful clarity. Vinh, 32, designed auto MCUs (multipoint control units), a task that demanded a clear mind, focused on the present. The job suited him perfectly: he was self-confident and saw the world as controllable, according to need or whim. He met San at a social function. He approached her, a young woman sitting alone in the corner of the room, holding a cocktail and a handful of fried shrimps in her slender fingers. When San raised her large ash-grey eyes to peer up at him, Vinh knew she was the girl for him. He tried to strike up a conversation with her, but she responded shortly, shy until the cocktail loosened her tongue. She was a senior cartoon designer for a film company, she told him, and he … [Read more...] about A flight to the north