VietNamNet Bridge - At the awards ceremony on January 27, film producer Ross Stewart announced the project 48 hours film making in Vietnam will be paused for a period of time.

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Mr. Ross Stewart announced the project 48 hours film making in Vietnam will be paused for a period of time.

At the award ceremony of the 2012 48 hours project in Hanoi, the Best Film prize went to the film Return of the group "Nhu nao phai noi."

The film is derived from the idea: "Everyone wants to change something in the past. So what would happen if the time travel tools machine was invented and was secretly sold? Would we be able to change the past, and if there was any change, what price that we have to pay?"

The audiences reunited a familiar face at the awards ceremony this year - director Nguyen Hong Quan (third from left). The movie "Return" brought him and his team the "Best Film" award. Last year he also won the award for the film "Safe Box."

The film’s background is in the future, in 2032 when the world is devastated by toxic emissions.

The “What the hell is Hank” film crew.

 

A month ago, Nguyen Hong Quan won the top prize at the Golden Bees film festival. The director, born in 1982, is now focused on building script for his first long film which is also a fiction movie, developed from his short film “The Room.”

“What the hell is Hank” by Matt Dworzanczyk, won a total of seven prizes, including: the second best movie, the best director, the best script, the best music, the best trailer, and the most elected movie (the second screening).

The organizers also presented a lot of sub-prizes, including the prizes that no other festivals have, such as the Use of Character, Use of Props and Use of Voice.
 
To be held in Vietnam for the third time, the contest had signs of "exhaustion" when the award ceremony was held sketchily.

Last year Australian director Phillip Noyce announced the Best Film award through a clip screened at the awards ceremony. This year, due to technical conditions, the clip was available, but the audience still could not watch it.

Speaking at the award ceremony, Mr. Ross Stewart, producer of the project, claimed that the project will be halted in Vietnam for some time. This means that in 2013 the project will not be held.

He told and online newspaper that the 48 Hours project in Vietnam is being done in a very different way than the rest of the world and also very different from the criteria set by the project: "We need to review the project in Vietnam to find out why things are not as successful as desired. "

If in other countries, within three days after the teams submit their products, the films will be introduced to the audience and soon will be the award ceremony, but in Vietnam the distance this time was 5 months. This reduced the excitement of the film makers. Mr. Stewart also shared that the project may come back soon but on a smaller scale, more privacy within the film community.

The "Return" film crew.

He hoped that in shrinking the size, the entire process of the competition will be reduced to one month. During this time, he and his colleagues will hold a contest for music videos.
 
The 48 Hours short film contest was initiated by Mark Ruppert and Liz Langston, two independent filmmakers in the United States. Contest rules are simple: The filmmaking teams have 48 hours (from 7 pm Friday to 7 pm Sunday) to make a short film from 4 to 7 minutes, which must have a required dialogue, a required character and a required prop. The team will draw lots to choose the genre.

In Vietnam, the competition was organized in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. This year's contest in Hanoi has the following data: the character must be Ngo Hoang Linh (male) or Ngo Hoang Ly (female), who is a chef, with moon cakes as the required props and the required dialogue "I thought that's what I just said.”

Compiled by P. Linh