Vietnamese short film hopeful for Asia-Europe award
“The visitor”, directed by young amateur film-maker Nguyen Le Hoang Viet, has been selected as one of the top ten films for the final round of the 2012 Asia-Europe Film Awards (ASEF).
The three-minute film, shot in a hospital in Hanoi, is focused on three main characters: an old patient, a granddaughter and her boy friend who is a foreigner.
The girl goes with her boy friend to visit her grandma in the hospital where the foreign guest play guitar and sing a Vietnamese song as a special gift to the old patient. She is very happy to listen to the song that says “Ba oi ba, chau yeu ba lam!” (I love you, grandma!).
The ASEF awards aim to create opportunities for young film makers aged between 18 and 35 to show their talents and improve professional skills.
The winners will have the chance to take part in a training course on film making at the in New York University Tisch School of Art Asia in Singapore and get a cash prize worth 5,000 Singaporean dollars.