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Vietnam's "Adrift" (“Choi Voi”) on US screen

The Global Film Initiative featured Vietnamese director Bui Thac Chuyen's film "Adrift" ("Choi voi") at downtown Letelier Theater in March 12 night.
The Global Film Initiative featuredVietnamese director Bui Thac Chuyen's film "Adrift" ("Choi voi") atdowntown Letelier Theater in March 12 night.

"Adrift" is one of the ten award-winning narrative feature filmsselected to be screened during the Global Lens Film Series by theGlobal Film Initiative, a US-based non-profit organisation founded withthe mission of promoting cross-cultural understanding through theuniversal language of cinema by acquising, distributing and supportingindependent films from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

"Adrift" was granted the FIPRESCI, an award of the Venice InternationalFilm Festival and it is Bui Thac Chuyen's second feature film with thefirst being "Living in Fear" which was awarded the Asian New TalentPrize for Best Film in the 2006 Shanghai International Film Festival.

Also during the Global Lens Film Series period, "Adrift" was shown tothe public in New York in mid-January, beginning a yearlong tour ofover 35 cities across the US and Canada.

Earlier, the film won Bronze Taiga award at the Spirit of Fire film festival in Russia./.
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