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Independent filmmakerDuration to complete job2daysDesired remuneration price10,000 yen to 50,000 yenPHAM THU HANG
BRIFT SUMMARY
I worked as a researcher in Vietnam Institute of Culture and Art since 2004. Later in 2009, I joined HanoiDoclab, a breakthrough documentary and video art center in Hanoi where I made several short documentary films.
I recently obtained Master’s in Documentary Directing in a consortium of three universities in Europe under the DocNomads Joint Masters program in Lisbon, Budapest and Brussels.
Working as an independent filmmaker based in Hanoi, I want to add my voice in the small but active and growing community of young independent documentary filmmakers in Vietnam.
My concern in filmmaking opens to many themes but mainly draws attention to rediscovering Vietnamese culture and the connection between the internal world in Vietnam and the world outside, especially in the context of contemporary globalization.
EDUCATION
Master of Documentary filmmaking, Doc Nomads Erasmus Mundus Master Course, 2015
Bachelor of Culture Studies, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU Hanoi, 2004
Documentary and Experimental Film-Making Course, Hanoi DOCLAB, Goethe Institute 2009-2011
Film criticism and theory, Film Studies program – University of Sciences and Humanities Hanoi & Ford Foundation, 2011
FILMOGRAPHY
2018 The future cries beneath our soil.
Link: https://vimeo.com/287804617/settings
Password: dinh&loc
2010 Rambling, 5m, Documentary
2010 Hai Ly 2010, 5m, Documentary
2010 Section number 8, 17m, Documentary
2012 An Encounter, 10 m, Documentary
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBw69AjlviU
2014 From where she comes, 26m, Documentary
Link: https://vimeo.com/102212191
2015 On the back of a seashell, 23m, Documentary
Link: https://vimeo.com/136114089
Pass: docnomads
In between. 15m. documentary
Link: https://vimeo.com/121267372
Pass: inbetween
AWARDS
The Future Cries Beneath Our Soil 2018
- Best Director at Singapore International Film Festival
Hai Ly 2010
- Second prize – in ‘Climate Change’ competition by Goethe Institute
Section number 8
- Best Film at the 2nd Salaya International Documentary Film Festival, Thailand
- Special Mention in the New Asia Current section of the 2011 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
SCREENING/ EXHIBITIONS
DMZ film festival in Korea, Sept, 2018
Singapore International Film Festival 2018
Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer 2019
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2011
Festival International De Curtas Do Rio De Janeiro 2011
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival 6 (BEFF 6)
The 4th European - Vietnamese Documentary Film Week
Salaya International Documentary Film Festival, Thailand.
CURRENT PROJECT
UHURU MAN
2019
This is a film about Ferdinand, the Burundian refugee who lives in Nakivale, the second biggest and oldest refugee resettlement in the world in Uganda. Struggling to build up a new page of his life in the camp while still living in fear of being arrested any time by hidden Burundian police who sent to the camp to look for him
SELECTED PAST WORKS
AN ENCOUNTER
2014
https://youtu.be/YBw69AjlviU
This film came from a question raised during a lecture on how to form an idea for making a film in my class back in 2014. The professor said that we could only make film on a problematic issue, about some story that was special and unique.
I wanted to challenge that idea by making a film about an ordinary person that I meet randomly in the street.
In this film, I followed a Nepalese guy who worked in a Chinese shop in Lisbon, Portugal. I found him very boring and had nothing to talk to him except for some vague conversions in our first encounter. But then slowly, the more we talked the more interesting he became, and I just went on shooting until he got irritated and didn’t want to see me anymore.
This is a short film that makes me more convinced about the way of film making in which whether a film could be made or not, it totally depends on a filmmaker’s perspective and how profound they would be able to fathom a deep wave under the surface of a subject/topic.
FROM WHERE SHE COMES
2014
https://vimeo.com/102212191
This film is about two Iranian girls who live far away from their mother land, struggling everyday with their new life in a foreign country while still carrying profoundly the pain they have in their soul toward their motherland.
IN BEWEEN
2015
https://vimeo.com/121267372
Password: inbetween
This film is in a form of a letter writing to a friend that I met accidently in a film festival. We shared a lot of things in common, especially our inferior complex of two Asians living in Western society, the feeling of being uprooted from our ancestor culture and society in which we belong to, how would we deal with that uprootedness by defining the notion of home where we could take refuge in.
THE FUTURE CRIES BENEATH OUR SOIL
2018
https://vimeo.com/287804617
Password: dinh&loc
Surrounded by the surreal landscape of Quang Tri province, four men live their lives inseparably from each other. The rhythm of their everyday lives is defined by moments of togetherness in a house with no doors where they all come to drink, smoke, play guitar and sing songs about love and the revolution of the past. Feelings of hatred interweave with compassion, swelling amidst the stagnation of time and space, seemingly awaiting for an unknown. One day, the unknown comes and takes one of them away, leaving the others to go on slipping through an undesired life. Meanwhile, the landscape, located in the border between North and South Vietnam, is what lives on, revealing traces of a war that has outlived its conclusion.
