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The Immortal (2018 Film)
''The Immortal'' ( vi, Người Bất Tử) is a 2018 Vietnamese film directed by Victor Vu. The twelfth feature film by Vu, it tells the story of a man who has lived across three centuries after making himself immortal through dark magic. US premiered at the 11th Viet Film Fest in 2019 and won the Award for Best Cinematography for a Feature film. Synopsis The film opens with scene An (Đinh Ngọc Diệp) constantly sleepwalking, every time she wakes up she is in a distant place. Looking for solutions to these strange dreams, and at the same time finding a way to save the daughter who is slowly dying of cancer. An discovers the life of the immortal man (Quách Ngọc Ngoan) and the dark secrets. From a gentle young man who is having a love affair with a beautiful songstress named Liên (Jun Vũ), Hùng is assassinated and lost everything. On the day of his return, Hùng yearns to regain everything that was once his own. Ambition and hatred led Hùng to seek magic - charms, to f ...
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Victor Vu
Victor Vu (; born November 25, 1975) is a Vietnamese-American film director, writer and producer. Along with critical acclaims, news media and public opinion have also accused Vu of plagiarism. In Vietnam's landmark first official plagiarism investigation, Vietnamese regulators found Vu's film ''Inferno'' to have copied Hollywood's 1991 film ''Shattered''. This resulted in ''Inferno's'' disqualification from Vietnam's Golden Kite Awards. Vu called a press conference to try misinform Vietnamese public that in Hollywood, such identical similarities are the obligatory result of using Hollywood filmmaking method. He also directed the 2019 hit film, Mắt Biếc, which won many awards and brought him back to the spotlight. Life and career Born and raised in Southern California, Vu earned his BA in film production from Loyola Marymount University. He has directed '' Passport to Love'', '' Battle of the Brides'', ''Blood letter'' (Sword of the Assassin), ''Spirits – Oan Hon'', ''First ...
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Christopher Wong
Christopher Wong is a film composer. He is known for scores in Vietnamese theatrical films and independent Asian American films including ''Journey from the Fall'', '' First Morning'' and '' The Rebel''. He trained under Academy Award winner Jerry Goldsmith. Composer credits * ''The Anniversary'' (2003) * ''First Morning'' (2003) * ''Spirits'' (2004) * ''Journey from the Fall ''Journey from the Fall'' ( vi, Vượt Sóng) is a 2006 independent film by writer/director/editor Ham Tran, about the Vietnamese re-education camp and boat people experience following the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. This drama was released ...'' (2006) * '' The Rebel'' (2007) * ''Passport to Love'' (''Chuyen Tinh Xa Xu'') (2009) * ''Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass'' ('' Tôi thấy hoa vàng trên cỏ xanh'') (2015) * ''Dreamy Eyes'' ('' Mắt biếc'') (2019) References External links Resume on Pacific Blue Music* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wong, Christopher Year of birth missing (living people) ...
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CJ Entertainment
CJ Entertainment (Hangul: CJ 엔터테인먼트) is a South Korean film production and distribution company under CJ ENM. The company operates as a film production company, film publishing house, investment and exhibition. History During early 1995, Cheil Jedang invested in the upstart film company DreamWorks SKG, and in June of the same year, Cheil Jedang established Multimedia Division. The division's later changed to CJ Entertainment in September, in time for their first film distribution deal with the movie '' Secrets and Lies''. To aid their position in the film distribution industry CJ Entertainment built the first multiplexes of Korea with the first one, CGV Gangbyeon 11, opening in April 1998. CJ Entertainment's importance in the Korean film industry grew in 1997–1998 when the nation was caught in the wave of the Asian financial crisis. Many smaller film companies had to close up, leaving the road open for CJ Entertainment to capitalize on the new-found popularity of K ...
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Vietnamese International Film Festival
First started in 2003, the Vietnamese International Film Festival (also known as ViFF) is a biennial film festival organized by the non-profits Vietnamese-American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) and University of California, Los Angeles, UCLAs VietNamese Language and Culture (VNLC). ViFF takes place at the University of California, Irvine, the University of California, Los Angeles, and other locations in and near the Little Saigon area of Orange County, California, Orange County, California. Part film festival and part community-service event, to date ViFF is the only film festival reserved for filmmakers of Vietnamese heritage in the world outside of Vietnam. VIFF 2003 and 2005 ViFF 2003 and ViFF 2005 showcased 48 and 37 films (both shorts and features), respectively, directed/produced by filmmakers of Vietnamese descent from the U.S., France, Canada, Australia, Germany, and Vietnam. As a result, many films by Vietnamese-heritage filmmakers, both new and previously released, ...
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Tuổi Trẻ
''Tuổi Trẻ'' ("Youth", ) is a major daily newspaper in Vietnam, publishing in Vietnamese from Hồ Chí Minh City. It was originally a publication of the Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union (Vietnamese: ''Đoàn Thanh niên Cộng sản Hồ Chí Minh'') of Ho Chi Minh City, and while it is still the official mouthpiece of that organization, it has grown to become the largest newspaper in the country. As of 2007 its daily circulation was 450,000. The printed newspaper includes: ''Tuổi Trẻ daily'', weekly ''Tuổi Trẻ Cuối Tuần'', semimonthly ''Tuổi Trẻ Cười''. Online versions includes: a Vietnamese version ''Tuổi Trẻ Online'' and an English version ''Tuoi Tre News''. History ''Tuoi Tre Newspaper'' was officially established on September 2, 1975. However, its precursor was propaganda leaflets issued by students and pupils in Saigon during their anti-American movements in the Vietnam War. In its early stage, ''Tuoi Tre'' circulated tri-weekly. On September ...
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Trương Thế Vinh
Trương, or Truong without diacritics, is a Vietnamese surname formerly written as in the Han script. It is derived from the Chinese surname Zhang (), one of the most common surnames in China and Taiwan. According to the 2010 United States Census, ''Trương'' is the 903rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 38267 individuals. ''Trương'' is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (96.87%) individuals. Origin and history The Vietnamese surname Trương derives from the Chinese surname Zhang, both written in the Han script as 張. Zhang is the third most common Chinese surname in China and fourth in Taiwan. List of people with the given name and surname * Paul Truong (born 1965), American chess player, trainer, and organizer * Peter Truong, convicted child sexual abuser * Trương Bửu Diệp (1897–1946), Vietnamese Catholic priest * Trương Định (1820–64), Nguyễn Dynasty mandarin * Trương Đình Dzu, lawyer and politician * Trương Hòa B ...
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Golden Kite Prize
The Vietnam Cinema Association Awards, popularly known as the Kite Awards or Golden Kite Awards (Vietnamese: ''Giải thưởng Hội Điện ảnh Việt Nam'', '' Giải Cánh diều'' or ''Cánh diều vàng'') since 2003, is an annual awards ceremony, recognizing the excellence of Vietnamese films, television series and videos produced during a year in Vietnam. The ceremony is usually held early next year. In spite of receiving a lot of criticism, this is still the most popular film and television awards in Vietnam. History In essence, Vietnam Cinema Association Awards is an internal awards in the award system of Literary Arts Association, which includes 7 associations: photography, architecture, cinema, music, theatre, literature, and art. In order to encourage the artists' works, every year, the government provides the funds to the associations to award them. The Vietnam Film Association Awards was originally presented by the Association as an award within the framework of ...
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Vietnamese Drama Films
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