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.

Since mid July 2008, the 2 programs : ‘’Bring Vietnam’s cinema to the audience’’ and ‘’Screening of short films made by young filmmakers”  have received financial contribution from Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) (a fund operated under Rotterdam Film Festival). Established in 1988, HBF is designed to bring remarkable or urgent feature films and feature-length creative documentaries by innovative and talented filmmakers from developing countries closer to completion, and also support special projects, such as training initiatives for filmmakers in developing countries. After 20 years, HBF has contributed to 600 projects from independent filmmakers in Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America have received support.

(Source: http://professionals.filmfestivalrotterdam.com)

Aside from ‘’Bring Vietnam’s cinema to the audience’’ and ‘’Screening of short films made by young filmmakers”, HBF has also financially supported 2 workshops of Cinema Space organized by the Center for assistance and development of movie talents – Vietnam Cinema Association.

We hope that with the precious assistance from HBF we can partly contribute to the development of Vietnam’s cinema.