Vietnamese director wins award at Cannes Film Festival 2022
Vietnamese young director Mai Vu was given the “Lights on Women Award” at the Cannes Film Festival 2022, with the prize honouring and highlighting the work of female filmmakers.
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| Mai Vu (R) wins prize at Cannes Film Festival 2022 (Source: vnExpress) |
The animated short film “Giac Mo Goi Cuon”, known as “Spring Roll Dream”, is a short animated film created by director Mai Vu which competed in the La Cinef category.
The work was viewed in the category La Cinef of the festival. The category was founded in 1998 and is dedicated to finding new talent. Every year, the organizers select 15 to 20 short and feature films from thousands of films by young directors from film schools around the world. This year, 16 works were selected from 1,528 returned films.
Actress Kate Winslet presents Mai Vu with a prize of 30,000 Euros. Viguier-Hovasse, the sponsor’s representative, said the short film director was chosen because the genre reflected the future of the film industry. Her goal is to encourage female filmmakers to raise their voices and overcome the lack of funding, one of the reasons men dominate women in the film industry.
The film revolves around a Vietnamese family in the United States. Linh is a single mother building a stable life for herself and her son Alan. Her family was turned upside down when her father – Mr. Sang came to visit from his hometown.
During the cooking time, he insisted on making salad rolls for his nephew, but Linh wanted to cook macaroni and cheese. From here, conflicts arise between Sang and Linh. At this point, Linh is confronted with the past and the culture that she left behind, causing her to question where her Vietnamese heritage belongs in her family's new life.
The character of Sang was inspired by a lonely old father who wishes to connect with his children and grandchildren but only knows how to express his love by cooking for them.
Mai Vu was born in Ho Chi Minh City in 1992 and started working in animation in 2011. First, she made short films for friends, then she fell in love with animation. From 2012 to 2015 she directed more than 70 episodes of “Xin Chao But Chi”, also known as “Hello Pencil”, the first stop motion animated series produced in the nation.
In 2020 she went to the UK to study animation, and she graduated in March of this year. During her career, she also shot promotional videos, mostly in the form of stop motion.
