1. Purposes:

Experientially, the use of short movies as a training focus is much suitable to financial and technical constraints of Vietnam. Actually, it is short movies that become a means to encourage and seek for young and potential filmmakers. Moreover, this is a good opportunity for young filmmakers to test themselves.

This project is designed on the basis of lessons from the First ‘Ten Months, Ten Movies” for young filmmakers. This training course will end with some festivals of short movies. Thus, the project forces young filmmakers to contact a large audience at home and maybe internationally.

2. Expected rusults

This project is aimed to encourage and discover young potential movie talents. It will also create good environment for young filmmakers and their ideas. After the project, the ten finished quality short movies will have chances to attend Vietnamese and international short film festivals. So, this project can become the bridge between Vietnamese young cinema and the world’s, through the short film festival organized at the end of the project.

3. Development

The project will be carried out as follows:

With the assistance of professional filmmakers in the world, the "Short Movie" Course is aimed to help Vietnamese young filmmakers to develop their scripts and produce ten short movies within ten months.

Following the successful First "10 Months, 10 Short Films 2003" in 2003, "10 Months, 10 Short Films 2005" continues to fund Vietnamese young filmmakers to make short feature films through nurturing courses on fundamental cinematographic skills: writing scripts, directing, montage, sound effects, and filmmaking. The main trainees under the project are undergraduates or new graduates from the cinematography colleges in Vietnam. They will directly work with famous Vietnamese filmmakers and international lecturers of cinematography to produce films.

4. Implementation

May-June 2005

The training course for scriptwriters was run by lecturer Anthony Fabian from 23 May to 11 July and attended by 10 trainees including young directors/scriptwriters whose good screenplays were approved by the Center’s Artistic Council.

Result: Through this course, the trainees were equipped with good knowledge and modern style of script-writing. The screenplays were further developed and the trainees had more opportunities to improve their professional skills. The course was a success in which both trainees and lecturers felt satisfied.

July-August 2005

During this period, the trainees perfected their screenplays and made necessary preparations to shoot their short movies. They could work with their supervisors who are famous Vietnamese directors to produce short movies:

Results: The trainees and lecturers cooperated together in dividing the screenplays into different scenes, searching for settings, performers and cinematographers, setting up the shooting plans... So, the filmming plans were carried out on schedule.

August-September 2005:

The trainees shot their movies with DVCam cameras

October-November 2005:

The class on montage lasted from 1 to 19 November under French instructor Christine Bouteiller. The trainees finished their films using the nonlinear software Final Cut Pro.

December 2005:

TPD Center collaborated with the Goethe Institute to organize a one-week seminar on “Film music” instructed by Germany composer/pianist Pierre Oser.

5. Post-project:

- Sending movies to the Vietnamese Short Film Festival 2005

- Sending movies to international film festivals

- Projecting the quality movies on television and Internet

Achievements:

•        Awards at the Vietnamese Short Film Festival 2005:

•        Fire Ants (by Phạm Hải Anh) Second Prize

•        Fifth Season (by Nguyễn Hoàng Điệp) Third Prize

•        White Storks (by Nguyễn Quỳnh Trang) Consolation Prize

•        The Paranoid (by Vinh Khương) Consolation Prize