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Truong Minh Quy on Moving Past Vietnam’s Ban of His Un Certain Regard Film ‘Viet and Nam’: ‘Like Being at Home, but Homeless at the Same Time’


Director Truong Minh Quy talks about moving past Vietnam’s ban on his Un Certain Regard film ‘Viet and Nam’.

I’d been friends with [Epicmedia producers] Bianca Balbuena and Bradley Liew for 20 years already and this seemed a good time for us to start working together. And in my mind it was an emotional and artistic response to two different stories and events that happen in Vietnam, told through the lens of a fiction film. I don’t think my producers had worked with 16mm film stock before and had the habit of sending materials backwards and forwards from the set.

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