Screening of “Zone 9″ Documentary by Nguyen Anh Thu in Los Angeles
EPFC Filmcicle Presents: Zone 9
Wed 11 May, 8 pm (in PDT)
Echo Park Lake Pedal Boats Canoe & Gondola
751 Echo Park Ave, Los Angeles, California 90026
From the organizer:
Join director Nguyen Anh Thu and producer Gabriel Hernandez for the premiere screenings of ZONE 9.
This documentary, shot over the course of several weeks in Vietnam, deals with the some of the issues facing Vietnamese people in modern times.
An abandoned pharmaceutical factory becomes the backdrop for an artistic movement taking place in Hanoi, Vietnam. Artists and entrepreneurs of all ages and backgrounds come together to form an arts complex known as “Zone 9” in an attempt to fulfill their dreams and passions. Feature preceded by The Factory, an animated short film by Nguyen Thuy Duong.
FREE EVENT! PICNICS WELCOME! LOCATION: NEAR THE BOATHOUSE AT ECHO PARK LAKE.
Watch the documentary’s trailer here:
[vimeo width=”700″ height=”393″]https://vimeo.com/101697835[/vimeo]
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ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Nguyen Anh Thu has a strong desire to make documentaries conveying social issues and problems people have to face in her home country. To her, documentary is a powerful media to tell stories, to contribute to social change and to express herself. Her first film “When we were 20” won the first prize for documentary in 2009 by the “We are filmmakers” project and was screened at several universities in United States, including Yale, NYU and Princeton. Nguyen Anh Thu’s second short is about the influence of urbanization on a small village in Hanoi while her third film, which is now under post-production, explores a reforestation and conservation project in the Atlantic rain forest of Brazil.
Gabriel Hernandez is a Hanoi expat and native New Yorker with a strong appreciation of documentary film, art and travel. To him Zone 9 was an important part of the development of the local arts scene in Vietnam and thus aims to showcase its contributions with this documentary.
