French documentary on Vietnam’s history on screen

A documentary on Vietnam’s history is being screened at 55 cinemas in France, according to the French newspaper - Le Monde.

The film, L’Empire du Milieu du Sud (The Empire of Mid-South), is made
at a cost of 3 million EUR by well-known French directors Jacques Perrin
and Eric Deroo. It outlines the situation of a France-dominated
Indochina and Vietnam’s resistance wars for independence.

Le
Monde said the film makers spent more than ten years to research and
collect documents and films not only of France but also of Japan, China,
Australia, the US, Cuba, Russia and Poland for making this film.

Director
Jacques Perrin is known for his recent documentary – Ocean – that was
screened at the first Vietnam International Film Festival last October.

Earlier,
he made a success in co-directing a documentary titled Le Peuple
Migrateur (2001) on bird’s migration that was shot in many countries,
including Vietnam.

The co-author of “L’Empire du Milieu du Sud”,
Eric Deroo is a historical researcher and director who authored numerous
research works on Vietnam and Indochina./.

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Vietnamese documentary wins film festival award

A documentary featuring a Vietnamese martial artist filmed by Quang Ngai
Television has won the Guirlande d' Honneur at the 28th Sport Movies
and TV festival in Milan.

Titled Doi Vo (Martial Arts
Life), the documentary features the moving story of the life and
passion of veteran martial artist Ngo Bong, who was born in Tu Nghia
district, in the central province of Quang Ngai . His name is
synonymous with Hung Ke Quyen, a local martial art dating back to the
Tay Son reign (1778-1802).

Thirteen television and cinema
works including feature films, documentaries, TV reports, television
shows, cinema technology and advertisements were also awarded at the
festival, which ended on Nov. 2.

The host Italy won four awards while China and Russia won two at the festival where 103 countries were represented.

The award winners will be screened in Doha (Qatar) between November 15
and 18, according to the Federation of International Cinema and
Television Sport (Federation Internationale Cinema Television Sportifs)./.

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Green documentary film award launched

Germany’s Geothe Institute in Hanoi launched a contest on green
documentary film, “Climate Change-Changing My Life” in Hanoi on Nov.
1.

The VietDocs 2011 aims to create a playground for young
film makers to produce short films on the environment in Vietnam .

According to the Head of Goethe Institute, Almuth Meyer
Zollitsch, contestants in the age group of between 18 and 30, have to
submit proposals on their film. A maximum of 20 interesting proposals
will be selected for the second round.

The selected
proposals will be developed into films with a duration of not more than
15 minutes, with focus on climate change and its impacts on Vietnam
’s environment.

The jury will pick up 10 best
films to be showed at the European documentary film festival to be held
in Hanoi next June.

The first prize winner
will receive an award of 1,000 USD and an amount of 3,500 USD for a
longer film on the same topic. The film will be sent to compete at a
festival on Southeast Asian scientific film, SeaDocs 2012./.

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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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