Come meet Indonesian documentary filmmaker Dimas Jayasrana, founder of MarshallPlan, an independent DVD distribution label, and www.filmalternatif.org, an information website for film communities in Indonesia.

Dimas will offer a presentation on Indonesian cinema and screen a collection of short films including both fiction and documentaries.

Time: 6pm. December 19, 2008.
Venue: TPD Center, 2nd Floor, 22A Hai Ba Trung.

Sitting is limited to 30. First come, first serve.

On Sunday 14^th December 2008 TPD will organize a film screening Eat Drink Man Woman and a topical discussion on director Ang Lee.

Time: 2.00 p.m. Sunday 14^th December 2008

Venue: TPD Center – 22A Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi

Content:

     2.00 p.m.: Introduction about director Ang Lee

     2.45 p.m.: Film screening Eat Drink Man Woman

Introduction about Ang Lee

Ang Lee was born and grew up in Taiwan moved to American to study and start his career as a film-maker. He is among few Asian directors whose works are loved  by both Asian and Western audiences. At his fifties, the director surprises the world with his extraordinary views which go beyond geographical, historical and cultural borders.

This week's HI-DeFF (Hanoi Independent Documentary & Experimental Film Forum) screening is at 6pm Friday Dec. 12, 2008 of independent experimental documentary film Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Sitting is limited to 30. First come, first serve.

HI-DeFF and TPD Center host a biweekly screening of independent, experimental and art films and videos on the second and fourth Fridays of the month, at 6pm.

Center for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents (TPD) and Cultural Development and Exchange Fund cordially invites film-lovers to film screening and discussion with Danish filmmakers on: 

Fund raising and Implement of Documentary Project – Long Bien Bridge.

Time: 14:00 Sunday, November 30^th 2008

Venue: Center for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents, 22A Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi  

Steen Møller Rasmussenm  (film-maker), Cai Ulrich v. Platen (painter) and Peter Schultz Jørgensen (architecture and planning expert) joined in the short documentary film  project on Hanoi’s Long Bien Bridge in 2006. They were seeking for financial supports  and finally got sponsored by some cultural organizations, including Cultural Development and Exchange Fund.