Film producer to represent Vietnam at London Film Fest

By Tuong Vi in HCMC The British Council Vietnam and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism have announced the winner of this year’s Young Screen Entrepreneur. The winner, Independent film producer Tran Thi Bich Ngoc, will represent Vietnam in London this month at the London Film Festival. The producer of numerous award-winning television commercials, Ngoc has also worked on international feature productions with directors such as Phillip Noyce (Quiet American), Oliver Stone (Pinkville project), Hans Peter Moland (The Beautiful Country) and Tran Anh Hung (Vertical Ray of the Sun). The first runner-up was Vu Manh Cuong, founder and director of Yxine Film Fest (YxineFF), the first online short film festival for the Vietnamese-speaking community atwww.yxineff.com. He has also administrated the website www.yxine.com, a specialized film website featuring international and Vietnamese cinema with 20,000 members and countless non-members for the last 7 years. The International Young Screen Entrepreneur award is part of the International Young Creative Entrepreneur award organized by the global British Council since 2004. The screen award ceremony will be held on Friday in HCMC.