Many generations of cinematographers from the South and the North reunited this morning at the Hanoi Opera House on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Vietnamese Revolutionary Cinema. Many artists expressed their incomplete joy because Vietnamese feature film studio – the origin of the classic revolutionary films for many years is still in a state of “half-life”. On the sidelines of the event, VietNamNet recorded the concerns of artists who have been attached to cinema all their lives.
People’s Artist Tra Giang: Sadness is still at Vietnam Feature Film Studio
In this 70th anniversary of the Vietnamese Revolutionary Cinema, there is both joy and sadness. The joy is to recall the time when Uncle Ho was interested in cinema, paving the way for Vietnamese cinema develop. As I have been in the film industry for 60 years, it is 60 years of constant striving, according to Uncle Ho: Artists are soldiers on their cultural fronts.
Not only Tra Giang but also the people in Vietnam Feature Film Studio have strived a lot to get works that people have seen and supported and loved the artist. Following the joy of the Tra Giang generation, the youth now are really good. They are allowed to work in a peaceful country with modern machinery. In the old days, technically, we worked very hard for the sake of art. And the children now have enough means and conditions to serve their intentions easily.
However, the sadness is still in Feature Film Studio Vietnam because following equitization, the company did not develop. Everyone who came to visit was in tears. I returned to the agency 3 days ago and was speechless. But I think one day the sadness will subside and the future of the youth will be more favorable. I hope you guys try your best in your films to express the culture, life, and soul of Vietnamese people because it is needed in every era. Movies like that will last forever whether it’s 70 years or 100 years.
Actor, MC Quyen Linh – Vice President of the Vietnam Cinema Association: The great disadvantage of cinema brothers
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Celebrating 70 years of Vietnamese cinema, memories are flooding back, the time when we made great movies, a film sometimes takes 1-2 years to complete. Now a new age, a new trend, a new generation of filmmakers updating modern trends, I think that’s a big development. However, Quyen Linh and the artist brothers still want the authorities to invest and pay more attention to the country’s cinema.
The atmosphere in cinemas is now too much commercial, state-run theaters are almost gone. That’s a huge disadvantage for the filmmakers. Because filmmaking has to take care of the screening place, the theater is almost socialized. In addition to doing art, they have to worry regarding the economy because the competition for theaters, showings, and the ratio of sharing with theaters is very tense.
For filmmakers, when there are no big studios like Vietnam Feature Film Studio or Giai Phong Film Studio, it’s a great sadness. Because that means no more epic movies. Private film studios do their job very well to update the latest and most modern things, bring movies to the audience, make movies according to the needs of the audience, but what is missing is traditional values, lacking the banyan trees, the names of making movies. If only there was a combination of old film makers with young people, our cinema would be stronger.
Recently, I went to the cinema to see Tran Thanh’s movies and because I am a movie lover, I go to see any Vietnamese movies that come to theaters, even those that have not yet been released. I want to observe, thereby contributing to the film industry, hope that one day not far away, Vietnamese films will have the same resonance as the ones that the aunts and uncles and brothers and sisters did before.
NBK Nguyen Thi Hong Ngat: The artists at the Vietnam Feature Film Studio are all scattered
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| NBK Nguyen Thi Hong Ngat was the Director of Vietnam Feature Film Studio from 1998-2001. |
In the great joy of the 70th anniversary of the Vietnamese Revolutionary Cinema, there is also a big sadness that causes pain for cinematographers, which is the address number 4 Thuy Khue.
The Vietnamese feature film studio should be honored, at the forefront of this celebration. 70 years, but leaving an address so bleak and dilapidated, everyone is heartbroken. If you do not restore the Firm but still resolutely equitize, exist or not exist, it is also a decision to avoid pain. One is to live, the other is to die, but let the company be bad, half alive and half dead like now, it’s sad.
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| After equitization, from 2016 up to now, the Vietnam Feature Film Studio has fallen into a cold wilderness. |
Number 4 Thuy Khue is still the same, the studio is still there but every day it is dilapidated, no one cleans it, no one maintains it, the studio has no life, anyone who passes by is afraid. The artists at the studio are almost gone and scattered, so I feel heartbroken. If you want to keep the Vietnam Feature Film Studio as a red address of the Revolutionary Cinema, you have to make it look like a red address, why leave it like that? We’re talking a lot regarding investing in culture, but why isn’t cinema getting the attention it deserves?
