VietNamNet Bridge – After the “48 hour film project” last year, Vietnamese young movie makers now try themselves with the “48 Go Green” short film making competition.

This is the “green version” of the “48 Hour Film Project”, which was launched in 2009. The project attracts participants from several countries. This year, 300 film-making groups from 20 countries, including Vietnam joined the contest.

Six film-making groups from Vietnam, including Fast food Films, The K6 Gang, Young Media, Pepe, Blue and Left At The Cow, participated in the contest. They received the topics on February 18 and they had 48 hours to shoot the film. The request was making short films about the environment from 4-6 minutes long, in English or with English subtitles.

After two days, Pepe withdrew from the competition, but the five other groups and nearly 150 groups in the world completed their movies and submitted their entries to the organizing board.

Blue is a film making group from the HCM City-based Blue Productions movies and event organizing company. This group made a short film entitled The Pursuit, with unintelligible contents about a young painter who feels he is at a standstill in his life. The only dialogue in this movie is “Can you help me?”.

The K6 Gang includes members from the movie project funded by the Ford Foundation and the University for social Sciences and Humanity. The group’s product is a short film entitled “Looking for Water” featuring a man who was bitten by a snake and was on his way to look for a hospital and a little boy who looked for water.

The poster of “A Superhero’s Choice”.

The three remaining groups – Fast Food Films, Young Media and Left At The Cow – took part in the 48 Hours Film Project last year.

Young Media won the first prize of the 48 Hour Film Project 2010, which was held in Vietnam for the first time, with “A Good Day To Die”. This year, the group’s entry to “48 Go Green” is entitled “That’s The Way It Is”. The film is about a man who sawed down a tree to make a coffin for himself. The movie’s message is if men destroy the environment, they will bury themselves.

Left AT The Cow is a group of expats in Vietnam. Their entry “Dooo” is quite special, with only one character sitting in front of the camera to talk.

Fast Food Film is the most notable group because among its members are Phan Xine, a famous online film critic who has just returned from the US, after getting a diploma for movie directors and Jenni Trang Le, vice director of three remarkable movies in 2010 – Inferno, Bi, Don’t Be Afraid and War of Brides.

The group’s entry is a film with cartoon effects entitled “A Superhero’s Choice”. The movie features a superman who wants to save the planet to win the heart of a girl.

The organizing board will choose the best 16 entries for introduction at a film festival in Las Vegas, USA from April 9-14. The bonus for the first prize winning movie will be $5000. The top five films will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival in France this year.

Movie fans can vote for their favorite films at website 48gogreen.com from February 22 through March 3.

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