VAALA Presents Viet Film Fest

VAALA Presents Viet Film Fest
VAALA Presents Viet Film Fest
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Festival News

Festival News

Viet Film Fest Has Begun!

October 3rd, 2023 – Santa Ana, CA – The Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) is proud to officially kick off Viet Film Fest (VFF), bringing together filmmakers and community members to celebrate the largest Vietnamese film festival in the diaspora. The 20th anniversary of Viet Film Fest promises Read more…

By Communication Specialist, 3 yearsOctober 3, 2023 ago
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Viet Film Festival: Câu Chuyện 20 Năm Điện Ảnh Việt Nam Tại Hải Ngoại

By Communication Specialist, 3 yearsSeptember 30, 2023 ago
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Not Another War Movie, Orange County’s Viet Film Fest turns 20.

By Communication Specialist, 3 yearsSeptember 28, 2023 ago
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Viet Film Fest to celebrate 20 years with launch party in Huntington Beach

By Communication Specialist, 3 yearsSeptember 26, 2023 ago
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Viet Film Fest khởi động và kỷ niệm 20 năm thành lập

By Communication Specialist, 3 yearsSeptember 26, 2023 ago
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Viet Film Fest thông báo lịch phim chiếu và các sự kiện đặc biệt

Ngày 24 tháng 8 năm 2023 – Santa Ana, California – Hội Văn học Nghệ thuật Việt Mỹ (VAALA) trân trọng thông báo sự trở lại của chương trình lớn nhất hàng năm của hội: Viet Film Fest (Đại Hội Điện Ảnh Việt Nam Quốc Tế). Kỷ niệm 20 năm Read more…

By Communication Specialist, 3 yearsAugust 24, 2023 ago
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Viet Film Fest Announces Full Film Lineup and Special Events.

August 24, 2023 – Santa Ana, California – The Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association (VAALA) is excited to announce the highly anticipated return of Viet Film Fest (VFF), the largest international Vietnamese film festival in the diaspora. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Viet Film Fest 2023 will take place virtually Read more…

By Communication Specialist, 3 yearsAugust 24, 2023 ago
Festival News

Statement in Solidarity with the SAG/WGA Strike

Viet Film Fest express our solidarity with WGA, SAG-AFTRA and our community of creatives. Writers and actors unequivocally deserve a living wage, and actors deserve the absolute right to own their likeness, without compromise or exception. For over 30 years, VAALA has uplifted artists in screen, literature, music, theatre, and Read more…

By Communication Specialist, 3 yearsAugust 10, 2023 ago

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Viet Film Fest 2023

Virtual
October 4 to 19

In-Person
The Frida Cinema, Santa Ana
October 10, 11, and 12

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Viet Film Fest

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Viet Film Fest
🤝 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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🤝 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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We are proud to be a central platform for the voices of Vietnamese filmmakers and stories about the Vietnamese people. Viet Film Fest welcomes your support in our collaborative project to use cinema as a tool for spotlighting our diversity of voices.

Virtual:
October 8–12

In-Person:
October 12–25

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