Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Belgian film director lectures on documentaries

The renowned Belgian film director Thierry Michel, will teach Vietnamese
directors and cinematography students how to make documentary films at a
five-day training course, starting on September 6.


The course has been jointly sponsored by the Wallonie-Bruxelles
delegation to Vietnam and Vietnam ’s National Documentary and
Scientific Film Studio, as part of an ongoing programme of cooperation.


The course will help the trainees to analyse
Vietnamese and foreign documentary films for reference, as well as films
that have been completed, including documentary films projects of
Vietnam .


Also as part of the course, the trainees
will have the opportunity to discuss trends and renewal of documentary
film making in Asia and other parts of the world as well as the
techniques required by Asian and global TV channels. They will analyse
the weak and strong points of Vietnamese documentaries so they can
integrate the country’s film industry into world cinema.


The participants will also be taught how to create and form the
necessary scenarios to meet the requirements of European film producers
and TV channels.


Thierry Michel, who is also
journalist and a lecturer at the Institute des Arts de Diffusion (IAD)
in Belgium, has produced two feature films along with numerous well
known documentaries including Mobutu the King of Zai-ia, the Congo
River, Children of Rio, Iran: Veiled Appearances, the Metamorphosis of a
Train Station and Donka./.

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