How to write a script for a short-film? For freshmen at cinema schools or amateur filmmakers, short films provide them opportunities to be creative, freely develop their ideas and gain more experience. 

In our quick course on scriptwriting for short films, students will learn about short film, its concept and structure. They will know how to brainstorm for a short film as well as various scriptwriting methods. 

In order to encourage and seek for talented and potential young filmmakers, the Short filmmaking Fund of the Center for Development and Assistance of Movie Talents (TPD Center) will provide financial support (VND 60,000,000 at most) for the making of 4 short films.

The making of those short films will give young filmmakers the opportunities to freely reveal their creativeness. If your short films are of good quality, they will possibly be sent to national and international film festivals.

Applicants include all Vietnamese citizens under the age of 40. Application portfolio consists of:

1 - Script (runtime: do not exceed 15 minutes)

2 - Synopsis

3 - Statement of the director for your future film (Why do you want to make this film, what does the message that your film convey?)

The “Cinema Space” project, which belongs to the Vietnam Cinema Association’s project on assisting young filmmakers, has been launched for 2 years. Cinema Space has become the place and the environment where young professional and non-professional filmmakers and movie lovers can come to discuss, study, and do research. Apart from the movie library of over 2000 movie titles and the collection of magazines, newspapers and books about cinema, Cinema Space - through its various activities - has brought its members a more profound and systematic picture of Vietnam’s cinema as well as other cinemas in the world.

As parts of Cinema Space’s important activities, the 2 programs on “Bring Vietnam’s cinema to the audience” and “Screening of short films made by young filmmakers” have acted as the bridge connecting Vietnam’s cinema and the audience. Not only having opportunities to watch Vietnamese classic movies and short films made by young filmmakers, audience members also have chances to talk and discuss with directors, script-writers, actors, producers, etc. after each screening in order to understand more about filmmaking in Vietnam.

The experimental phase of  the project “We are the filmmakers” was launched in January, 2008. The project is aimed to set up a non-professional film-making community in high school and college students nationwide.

All the short-firms were made with non-professional recording equipment. The first members of this film making community are 72 students - aged from 12 to 20 -  coming from junior high schools, high schools and colleges in Hanoi and Hochiminh city. All the students attended a free course in making documentaries and feature films. The course focused on experimenting and practicing, which required students to always independently and proactively participate.