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Viet Film Fest 2022 Reveals Award Winners at Virtual Awards Ceremony 

October 16, 2022
Rouven Linnarz

The 2022 Awards Ceremony will take place virtually Saturday, October 15 at 6 p.m. PST. and will be available to watch on www.VietFilmFest.com.

Viet Film Fest is proud to present the Inspiration Award to director Trinh T. Minh-ha. Born in Hanoi, raised in South Vietnam, and later migrating to the United States in 1970, Trinh is also a Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Gender and Women's Studies and of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Originally trained as a composer and pianist, Trinh is a noted literary theorist – often integrating her literary background with her filmmaking in works such as Reassemblage (1982), Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989), A Tale of Love (1995), and What About China? (2022). Prior winners of the Inspiration Award include Kelly Marie Tran (2021's Raya and the Last Dragon) and Trần Anh Hùng (1993's The Scent of Green Papaya). 

The Grand Jury for Viet Film Fest 2022 has selected the winners for Best Actress, Best Actor, Trống Đồng Award for Best Short, and Trống Đồng Award for Best Feature. For this year's edition of VFF, the Grand Jury includes director Bao Nguyen (VFF 2021 Best Feature winner for Be Water); television producer Rosalina Tran (House of Ho), and director Victor Vu (VFF 2016 Best Feature winner for Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass). The Curatorial and Executive Committees also identified the winner of the Spotlight Award, reserved for films and/or filmmakers that highlight important topical themes or to recognize the work of a burgeoning filmmaker. The nominations follow below: 

Nominees for the Grand Jury Trống Đồng Award for Best Short

• All I Ever Wanted dir. Erin Lau (USA)

• Container dir. Erin Hembrador, Quan Luong (Canada)

• Granny Boot Camp dir. Terry Ngo (USA)

• Talk to Me dir. Darien D. Dien (USA)

• Taste of Home dir. Ani Vo (Germany)

Nominees for the Best Actress Award

• Kim B (The Brilliant Darkness)

• Cathy Bui (All I Ever Wanted)

• Nhung Hong (Taste of Home)

• Thu Trang (Blood Moon Party)

Nominees for the Best Actor Award 

• Si Nguyen, Container

• Ngoc Tuong – Maika: The Girl From Another Galaxy

• Lai Truong Phu – Maika: The Girl From Another Galaxy

• Duc Thinh (Blood Moon Party)

• Thai Hoa (Blood Moon Party)

Nominees for the Grand Jury Trống Đồng Award for Best Feature: 

• Blood Moon Party dir. Nguyen Quang Dung (Vietnam) 

• Children of the Mist dir. Diem Ha Le (Vietnam) 

• Jimmy in Saigon dir. Peter McDowell (USA)

• Memento Mori: Earth (Vietnam)

• Memoryland dir. Bui Kim Quy (Vietnam)

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Rouven Linnarz

Ever since I watched Takeshi Kitano's "Hana-Bi" for the first time (and many times after that) I have been a cinephile. While much can be said about the technical aspects of film, coming from a small town in Germany, I cherish the notion of art showing its audience something which one does normally avoid, neglect or is unable to see for many different reasons. Often the stories told in films have helped me understand, discover and connect to something new which is a concept I would like to convey in the way I talk and write about films. Thus, I try to include some info on the background of each film as well as a short analysis (without spoilers, of course), an approach which should reflect the context of a work of art no matter what genre, director or cast. In the end, I hope to pass on my joy of watching film and talking about it.

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