Environmental organisation Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) has introduced a short public awareness film about tiger protection. The film’s story focuses on an engagement ceremony in which the groom’s mother offers a box of tiger bone glue as a gift for the bride’s family. However, the bride’s parents turn the gift down which disappoints the groom’s mother, ending the proposed wedding. The film is scheduled to be screened on Vietnam Television and local stations nationwide. People can also see the film on ENV’s Youtube channel. Many Vietnamese people still believe that tiger bone glue is a kind of magical medicine which can help to support the treatment of lots of diseases and health improvement. This is some of the reason for the increased number of tigers that have been hunted. Tigers are at high risk of extinction, particularly in Vietnam and neighbouring countries. Scientists estimated that less than five tigers now live in Vietnam. In 2018, … [Read more...] about Tiger protection film launched
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Scottish iPhone filmmaker wins Turner Prize
Viet Nam News LONDON — An openly gay Scottish artist who celebrated queer lives in a short film shot on an iPhone won Britain’s prestigious Turner Prize Tuesday. This year’s four finalists for one of the world’s most coveted visual arts awards featured works packed with political punch. Scotland’s Charlotte Prodger came out on top at a glitzy reception at London’s Tate Museum for a 33-minute visual compilation called BRIDGIT. The jury said Prodger’s work "meanders through disparate associations ranging from JD Sports and standing stones to 1970s lesbian separatism and Jimi Hendrix’s sound recordist. "Her work explores issues surrounding queer identity, landscape, language technology and time." The 44-year-old Glasgow-based artist – dressed in a simple white T-shirt for the occasion – said she felt "quite overwhelmed". "The stories that I am telling, although they are mine and are personal, are stories that a lot of … [Read more...] about Scottish iPhone filmmaker wins Turner Prize
China’s ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ is surprise box-office hit
The screen portrayal of a cancer sufferer whose illegal import of foreign medicines into China spurred national policy changes has become a box-office smash as audiences flock to a rare Chinese film on a hot-button issue. "Dying to Survive" is based on Lu Yong, who was arrested in 2013 after illegally importing a generic cancer drug in a case that sparked public debate about high medical costs. It is being compared to "Dallas Buyers Club", the critically acclaimed 2013 U.S. film about smuggled HIV treatments, and praised as a breath of fresh air in China's heavily censored cinema landscape. The public debate eventually saw Lu's case dismissed and his experience is credited with prompting government steps to make cancer medicines more accessible and affordable. Starring popular comic actor and director Xu Zheng as a character modelled after Lu, the movie uses touches of black comedy to leaven the heavy subject matter and is on course to become one of China's highest-grossing films. … [Read more...] about China’s ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ is surprise box-office hit
HCMC university to host Kurosawa Akira film festival
HCMC university to host Kurosawa Akira film festival By Nhat Linh World-renowned films by legendary Japanese director Kurosawa Akira will be screened at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities HCMC’s film festival - PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE ORGANIZER The HCMC-based University of Social Sciences and Humanities will hold a film festival featuring the most popular films by world-renowned Japanese director Kurosawa Akira from June 16 to 22. During the week-long festival, the organizer will screen Kurosawa’s five films, including Rashomon (adapted from two short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa), Ikiru (inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich), Throne of Blood (adapted from Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth) and Ran (adapted from Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear). Dreams, a 1990 Japanese-American magical realism film comprising eight vignettes written and directed by Kurosawa, will also be screened. With English subtitles for all of … [Read more...] about HCMC university to host Kurosawa Akira film festival
Open your heart to children with autism
Van Minh Duc, Ha Dinh Chi, Pham Binh Minh (from L) are reknowned autistic artists from Hanoi. (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – No official survey has been conducted to count the number of autistic children in Vietnam yet, but the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs estimates that some 200,000 children in the country are living with autism. The figure would reach 500,000 according to the standards of the World Health Organisation. Open your heart to children with autism “If you open your heart to children with autism, you will see they are not mentally disordered. In fact, many have a higher level of intelligence than the average child and some have extraordinary capabilities in different fields, such as memory, maths, art and physics,” said Pham Thi Ngan. Pham Thi Ngan and her husband co-found Tohe Social Company (Source: VNA) Ngan and her husband were inspired by the capabilities of those on the autism spectrum after they volunteered for … [Read more...] about Open your heart to children with autism