The Academy’s film event continues tonight with a salute to Director Dang Nhat Minh. For those in the L.A. area who have not been in attendance, you have missed some wonderful films and an opportunity to interact with directors, actors and actresses.
Tonight’s event will be hosted by Phil Robinson, Academy governor and International Outreach Committee chair, and will include an onstage conversation with Dang Nhat Minh as well as other visting directors in attendance, Phan Dang Di (Bi, Don’t Be Afraid), Nguyen Quang Binh (Floating Lives), Nguyen Vinh Son (The Moon at the Bottom of the Well), Bui Thac Chuyen (Adrift), Le Thanh Son (Clash) and Stephane Gauger (Owl and the Sparrow). There will also be a reception where guests can intreact one on one with talent from Vietnam which is a rare opportunity!
Dang Nhat Minh is a legendary director of classic films such as The Love Doesn’t Come Back (1984), Nostalgia for the Countryside (1996) and Vietnam’s 2009 entry to the Academy’s Foreign Language Film Award competition, Don’t Burn. The salute will be followed by a screening of Dang Nhat Minh’s film The Guava House (2000) about a middle-aged man whose emotional and mental development ended at adolescence becomes obsessed with a guava tree in the yard of his former childhood home. When he is arrested trying sneak into the yard, he forms a unique relationship with the daughter of the home’s current resident.
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