The Global Film Initiative featured Vietnamese director Bui Thac Chuyen's film "Adrift" ("Choi voi") at downtown Letelier Theater in March 12 night.
"Adrift" is one of the ten award-winning narrative feature films selected to be screened during the Global Lens Film Series by the Global Film Initiative, a US-based non-profit organisation founded with the mission of promoting cross-cultural understanding through the universal language of cinema by acquising, distributing and supporting independent films from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East .
"Adrift" was granted the FIPRESCI, an award of the Venice International Film Festival and it is Bui Thac Chuyen's second feature film with the first being "Living in Fear" which was awarded the Asian New Talent Prize for Best Film in the 2006 Shanghai International Film Festival.
Also during the Global Lens Film Series period, "Adrift" was shown to the public in New York in mid-January, beginning a yearlong tour of over 35 cities across the US and Canada.
Earlier, the film won Bronze Taiga award at the Spirit of Fire film festival in Russia./.
"Adrift" is one of the ten award-winning narrative feature films selected to be screened during the Global Lens Film Series by the Global Film Initiative, a US-based non-profit organisation founded with the mission of promoting cross-cultural understanding through the universal language of cinema by acquising, distributing and supporting independent films from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East .
"Adrift" was granted the FIPRESCI, an award of the Venice International Film Festival and it is Bui Thac Chuyen's second feature film with the first being "Living in Fear" which was awarded the Asian New Talent Prize for Best Film in the 2006 Shanghai International Film Festival.
Also during the Global Lens Film Series period, "Adrift" was shown to the public in New York in mid-January, beginning a yearlong tour of over 35 cities across the US and Canada.
Earlier, the film won Bronze Taiga award at the Spirit of Fire film festival in Russia./.
