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 5 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.
Classes on ‘We are the filmmakers’ officially start.
‘We are the
filmmakers’, the project for students at junior high schools (7th
& 8th grade), high schools (10th & 11th
grade), colleges and universities nationwide, has taken its first step.
At 9 a.m. & 2 p.m. (17th February 2008) the Center for
assistance and development of movie talents (TPDCenter) held the
opening ceremony for the classes on ‘We are the filmmakers’ at 22A Hai Bà Trưng street, Hanoi. On the same day
an opening ceremony for another class in Ho Chi Minh city was also
organized at 8.30 a.m. at Thai Binh
private school, 236/10 Nguyễn Thái Bình
street, Precinct number 12, Tân Bình district.
(10.00 a.m. 18th
January 2008)
Paolo Bertolin, an Italian film critic gave a talk to the students of the
producing course and of the ’10 months, 10 films’ project about Cannes and Venice Film festivals. The
focus of Paolo Bertolin’s talk was on the main categories of Cannes and Venice Film festivals and how
to send films to these 2 best film festivals of Europe.
Paolo
Bertolin is currently working with Cannes ' Critics' Week http://www.semainedelacritique.com/
and with Udine Far East Film Festival (FEFF), a festival specializing in
mainstream, popular East Asian films, ranked by Variety as one of the 50 best
film festivals in the world www.fareastfilm.com.
Conference on documentary films by German filmmaker Hans Hattop
2pm Saturday 10th Nov, 2007,
TPD co-operated with Goethe Institute to organize a conference on documentary
films by German filmmaker Hans Hattop with the participation of students
from “10 months, 10 shorts film” program and film production course
and young documentary filmmakers. During the conference, besides some
documentary films by Hans Hattop, TPD has shown the film “Probationers”
by Pham Thi Hao – a female director who had attended the documentary
filmmaking course Varan. Hans Hattop comes to Vietnam for a month to
deliver lectures in the School of Theatre and Cinema.
List of screenplay selected for the Director course – 10 months, 10 short films
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