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There is much worry in the public about the quality of TV serials that have recently been declining in quality and content and not reflecting the realities of life.
Some films show frequent advertising clippings that upset the audience who are subjected to commercial rather than content viewing.
Experts say that film scripts and the relationship between scriptwriter-director-producer is an important role in filmmaking.
Actresses Kim Xuan, Kim Phuong and Hanh Thuy focused on the work pressure and unprofessionalism of actors that has affected the film crew.
Participants said that the Board of Review of Motion Pictures has not promoted their talents in film previews.
Photo exhibition on General Giap opens in Danang
A photo exhibition on Vietnam’s legendary military general Vo Nguyen Giap opens in the central city of Danang on June 6.
The exhibition displayed 101 photos capturing moments in the life of the General taken by Vietnam News Agency photo-journalist Tran Tuan, who had the chance to accompany the General in many working trips both in and outside the country.
These photos were first made public at an exhibition in Hanoi last December, on the occasion of General Giap’s 101st birthday and the 66th founding day of the Vietnam People’s Army.
The exhibition will run until June 10.
Lang Co Festival in July 2011
The People’s Committee of Phu Loc District in the central province of Thua Thien- Hue has announced that the Lang Co Festival will take place on July 9-10 this year.
The festival will hold a series of cultural activities as part of the various programs to open ‘National Tourism Year 2010’ in Thua Thien- Hue.
Lang Co Festival will be a good opportunity for the region to promote its tourist potential.
Lang Co beach, 30 kilometers north of Hue City, was declared as the ‘World's Most Beautiful Bay Clubs’ in 2009.
NHK TV to broadcast Son Doong cave reportage
Japan’s NHK World TV will broadcast on June 25 a 3D scientific reportage on Vietnam ’s Son Doong cave, which is classified as the largest cave in the world.
NHK TV’s broadcast will reach 60 countries around the world, according to the Foreign Affairs Department of the central province of Quang Binh , where Son Doong cave was found.
Department Deputy Director Nguyen Ngoc Quy said this scientific reportage is the first in the world using 3D technology.
The reportage, called “Let’s fell the grandness of nature”, has been made by Japan ’s Kyodo film studio with assistance of Quang Binh province and the British Cave Research Association (BCRA).
Hang Son Doong (Mountain River Cave was announced as the largest in the world by BCRA, and selected as one of the most beautiful in the globe by the BBC news, according to Quy.
Son Doong cave was first spotted in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park by a local man named Ho Khanh in 1991.
The cave was then made known publicly as lately as in 2009 by a group of British scientists from BCRA, led by Howard Limbert, after their surveying trip in Phong Nha-Ke Bang Park .
According to Limbert, the cave is five times larger than the nearby Phong Nha cave, previously considered to be the largest cave in Vietnam .
Son Doong cave is found to have a length of at least 6.5km. It is estimated to be 200m in width and 150m in height. The largest chamber of the cave is judged to be 250m in height.
Scientists have also discovered a great number of stalactites in astonishingly extraordinary shapes and also primitive forests in the cave.
Hanoi concert to feature award-winning musicians
Award-winning artists from the Hanoi Symphony Orchestra will perform works by Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Schumann and others at a concert in the Vietnamese capital June 15.
Summer 2011 Gala Concert will feature pianist Nguyen The Vinh who won the Gold Prize at the 2010 Cheonan Competition in Korea, baritone Quoc Hung who won the Silver Cup at the 2000 Pyongyang Spring Art Festival in North Korea, pianist Do Hoang Linh Chi who won the First Prize, Category A, at the 2009 International Piano Competition in Indonesia, and baritone Phuc Tiep and soprano Duyen Huyen who won the Second Prize at the 2009Vietnam National Opera and Chamber Music Competition.
They will perform “Impromptu No. 1 Op. 29 in A flat major” by Chopin, “Hungarian Rhapsody No.11 in A moll” and “La Campanella” by Liszt, “Prelude No.2, Op.23” by Rachmaninoff, “Piano Quintet in Eb major, op.44” by Schumann, and “The magic flute” opera by Mozart.
Tickets to the concert at the Hanoi Opera House, 1 Trang Tien, cost from VND150,000 to 700,000.
Siemens launches video clip contest on sustainability
Siemens, the world’s leading green infrastructure company, launched a video clip contest on sustainable development in Hanoi on June 6.
The contest, titled “Sustainability – All we need is U”, aims to increase awareness of sustainability and to appeal the sense of responsibility and responsive actions of youths right from today.
“ Vietnam is a developing country where urbanisation is taking place at a very fast speed but it is also one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change,” said President and CEO of Siemens Vietnam Erdal Elver.
And yet not all Vietnamese people, especially the young, are fully aware of the consequences of these two trends and the necessity to act sustainably – with respect to the economy, the environment and society, he said.
“Sustainability is Siemens’ guiding principle, and we wish to promote it in Vietnam as a part of our corporate social commitment to this fast growing country”, emphasised Elver.
This contest is open to students aged 18 to 25 years old of all universities and colleges across Vietnam who are creative and dynamic as well as fans of the Seventh Art.
The jury will select five best entries for the final round where short-listed film-makers are required to make a presentation about his/her video clip. Winners will be awarded with very attractive and valuable prizes.
There are also many prizes for participants throughout the contest such as “The best video clip of the month” selected by the jury and “The video clip of choice” voted by the website’s members together with prizes for winners of the online games.
This is the second time Siemens Vietnam undertakes to organise a contest for Vietnamese students. The 2010 photo contest “Ho Chi Minh City 21 – A Green and Sustainable City” drew much attention and was well responded by students from more than 20 universities in Ho Chi Minh City
Present in Vietnam in 1993, Siemens has participated in numerous infrastructure projects in all key areas of the Vietnamese economy, including energy, industry, healthcare and transportation
More information about the contest is available at the website www.siemens.com.vn.
Floating school emphasises heritage preservation
The EcoBoat, an environmental education programme on Ha Long Bay, was the focal point of an exhibition on June 5 to showcase its outstanding performance over the past six years.
The exhibition introduced poems and paintings featuring a wide range of activities launched by the EcoBoat programme to send wishes for a forever green, clean and beautiful bay.
Established in 2005 by the Ha Long Bay’s Management Department and the Fauna and Flora International (FFI), the EcoBoat serves as a floating school that educates children about values of Ha Long Bay as well as the need to preserve the world heritage site.
Students at the school have chance to explore the spectacular natural landscapes of the bay and engage in an array of exciting games, where they learn about the biological significance of the marine reserve.
The programme, funded by the UK ’s Darwin Initiative, has carried out a total of 136 trips with the participation of over 4,000 members since the first one made in April, 2006.
The exhibition contributes to the campaign to garner votes for Ha Long Bay as one of the new seven wonders of the world.
Exhibition of sculptures, worship paintings opens
An exhibition of paintings and statues by painter, sculptor, and art critic Nguyen Quan has opened at Art Talk Café in Hanoi.
“3D White” has on display three white sculptures and 26 black and white oil paintings Quan, 63, created 30 years ago.
Some of the paintings are inlaid with Sinh village paintings from the central province of Thua Thien-Hue – the famous folk style used to express people’s wishes on votive offerings that are burnt during prayers.
The painter said he wanted to offer people a chance to see the painting style since it was a “waste” to use it just for worshiping.
The exhibition at 12 Quan Su will run until June 20.
VTV cancels popular historical drama
Huyen Su Thien Do (Legend of the 1,000-Year-Old Capital), the first Vietnamese historical drama TV series, which has been shown on national television channel VTV since April, will be cancelled on June 29.
According to VTV last week only the first 20 episodes will be shown, but the show’s producers had already planned to shoot 70 episodes.
Huyen Su Thien Do, one of a few shows that were made to celebrate Hanoi’s 1,000-year anniversary last year, has received good ratings so far by viewers who rarely have the chance to watch a pure made-in-Vietnam historical program.
As much of the viewership has a favorable opinion of the show, many have expressed concern over the abrupt cancellation.
Sao The Gioi, the producing company, said although it had finished filming 42 episodes up to now, its contract with VTV only allowed half of them to be aired.
“We sent our script to them [VTV] two years ago, when both of the parties were still unsure of its screening schedule,” Sao The Gioi’s representative said.
At the time, as Huyen Su Thien Do was one of the first Vietnamese historical drama projects in the industry, VTV feared it may not reach the station’s standards.
The producing cost was another problem, because the genre usually needs more financing for things like costumes, props, studios and cinematic techniques.
So VTV decided to test how the show would be received first, because it feared Vietnamese audiences, whose tend to favor more developed Korean and Chinese historical dramas, may turn their backs on the program.
However, after spending a lot on a massive PR campaign the limited testing contract is not enough time to make any profit.
Nguyen Huu Trong, a producer at Sao The Gioi said it would suffer a loss because the production costs are much higher than a usual TV series.
“Each episode fetches more than VND 1 billion (US$ 49,000), and the TV ads can’t cover it,” he said. “The film needs much more air time to recover its capital. Twenty episodes are not enough at all.”
Nguyen Thanh Luu, deputy head of Editorial Secretariat at VTV said when signing the contract, they had to balance audience needs and financial profit, especially with a big budget project like this.
“The contract was signed by both parties unanimously then,” he added.
Although June 29 will be the last day Huyen Su Thien Do airs, VTV has not decided what will replace it.
There have been rumors that Duong Toi Thanh Thang Long (The Road to Thanh Long Citadel), another series made to celebrate Hanoi’s1000-year anniversary would fill the time slot.
Hue to turn Nguyen Dynasty palace into resort
The central city of Hue is looking for investors to restore Phu Noi Vu (Inner Court Palace) in the Imperial City and turn it into a high-class resort.
The two-hectare palace was built in 1937 by the Nguyen Dynasty to store royal treasures.
The plan envisages retaining its architecture, displaying palace utensils, and selling replicas along with royal cuisine.
The restoration work is expected to cost around VND65.4 billion (US$3 million).
Phu Noi Vu housed the Hue College of Arts from 1957 to 2008.
Source: Tuoi Tre/SGGP/TBKTSG/SGTT/VOV
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