Christine Tran, Author at VAALA Presents Viet Film Fest

Festival News

Viet Film Fest 2023 Celebrates its 20th Year Anniversary

Call for Submissions begin early as Viet Film Fest organizers prepare for its 20th anniversary January 4, 2023 — Orange County, CA — The Vietnamese Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) is proud to announce that Viet Film Fest will return September 30 through October 15, 2023 for its 20th year Read more…

By Christine Tran, 4 yearsJanuary 14, 2023 ago

Documentary

An interview with Ha Le Diem, Director of Children of the Mist

The 13th edition of Viet Film Fest 2022 continues with breathtaking documentaries that portray contemporary issues relating to the larger Southeast Asian community. Set in the North of Vietnam, Children of the Mist is a film about the holy time of childhood and its disappearance. We spoke with director, Ha Read more…

By Christine Tran, 4 yearsOctober 4, 2022 ago

Viet Film Fest

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🤝 Meet the Curatorial Committee: Vinh Phu Pham💡 The Curatorial Committee have been hard at work watching and reviewing this year’s submissions, bringing their expertise, passion, and thoughtful perspective to the selection process. We’re grateful for the time and care they’ve put into helping shape this year’s Viet Film Fest lineup.🎬 The films selected for this year’s festival will be announced soon! Follow us and stay tuned for the big reveal.🎞 Vinh Phu Pham is a cultural critic and interdisciplinary scholar whose work engages the Vietnamese diaspora through contemporary art, film, music, and the cultural legacies of the Republic of Vietnam. His research bridges transnational literary histories, visual culture, and the politics of cultural production across Southeast Asia and its diasporas.His writing has appeared in The Journal of Vietnamese Studies (JVS), Artforum, Hyperallergic, BBC Vietnam, Rising Asia Journal, Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos, and Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network (DVAN), among other venues. His article “Paris by Night and the Making of Vietnamese American Music” examines the role of diasporic media in shaping Vietnamese cultural identity overseas. He is also a contributor to the edited volume Republican Vietnam, 1963–1975: War, Society, Diaspora. Formerly the English editor of the US–Vietnam Review, Vinh has taught at Cornell University and Fulbright University Vietnam, and currently serves as Assistant Professor of World Literature at Bard High School Early College (Queens) in New York City.🍊 Don’t forget to follow us Viet Film Fest for upcoming festival updates!#VietFilmFest2026 #FilmFestival #AAPI #Film #Vietnamese ... See MoreSee Less

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Viet Film Fest

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🤝 Meet the Curatorial Committee: Julian Doan💡 The Curatorial Committee have been hard at work watching and reviewing this year’s submissions, bringing their expertise, passion, and thoughtful perspective to the selection process. We’re grateful for the time and care they’ve put into helping shape this year’s Viet Film Fest lineup.🎬 The films selected for this year’s festival will be announced soon! Follow us and stay tuned for the big reveal.🎞 Julian Doan is a writer/director preoccupied with the mundane, ironic, and absurd. His short films RASPBERRY (Sundance 2021) and LONG’S LONG LOST & MINI MART (Tribeca 2025), are the first 2 of his “dead dad trilogy”, to be completed with his 1st feature HALF SWEET (Gotham Project Market 2021) - a Tati-esque satirical tragicomedy about a family keeping a dying father alive against his will. Together, these films all explore the commodification of grief. He’s also an editor and assistant editor with credits such as THE SYMPATHIZER, IN TREATMENT, MAINSTREAM, and WILD WILD COUNTRY. He’s a recently converted cat daddy.🍊 Don’t forget to follow us Viet Film Fest for upcoming festival updates!#VietFilmFest2026 #FilmFestival #AAPI #Film #Vietnamese ... See MoreSee Less

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Viet Film Fest is at The Frida Cinema.

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🎬✨ #VietFilmFest2026 is back its fourth year in a row with The Frida Cinema!➡️ Swipe to see Viet Film Fest at The Frida Cinema last year!🌏🍿 Viet Film Fest is partnering with The Frida Cinema to celebrate Vietnamese stories and voices in cinema. As the largest international Vietnamese film festival in the diaspora, Viet Film Fest showcases award-winning films from around the world. The Frida Cinema, Orange County’s sole non-profit art house, shares our commitment to enriching, connecting, and educating communities through the art of film—making this collaboration a perfect match.❤️🤝🌴 Join us in-person on October 8, 9, 10 and 11 at the Frida Cinema in Santa Ana, California!🍊 Don’t forget to follow us Viet Film Fest for upcoming festival updates!#VietFilmFest2026 #OCEvents #Film #AAPI #FridaCinema #SantaAna ... See MoreSee Less

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