Vietnamese filmmaker Truong Minh Quy has been awarded the TorinoFilmLab (TFL) co-production fund award for his upcoming feature Viet And Nam.
The award consists of €50,000, which will be allocated to the European production company working on the film – Germany’s Scarlet Visions – as well as a series of expert consultancies with people in various areas of filmmaking. Experts include UK art director Fleur Whitlock and the Emmy-winning production designer of 2006’s Jane Eyre, Grenville Horner.
Viet And Nam follows a couple who both work as miners, as one of them goes on a quest to find his father’s remains. It will be filmed in Vietnam and the Philippines and is aiming for a 2023 completion.
Producers on the title are Bradley Liew and Bianca Balbuena for Philippines’ Epicmedia Productions and Mai Nguyen for Scarlet Visions and Vietnam’s CineHanoi. It is co-produced by Singapore’s E&W Films; France’s Deuxième Ligne Films; the Netherlands’ An Original Picture; and Taiwan’s Volvos Film.
This is Quy’s first fiction feature. He is best known for his 2019 documentary sci-fi The Tree House which screened at Locarno, Rotterdam and New York film festivals.
Quy’s most recent project, a short film entitled The Men Who Wait, was selected for the Berlinale in 2021.
Scarlet Visions is based in Munich, Germany and was founded in 2017 by Austrian filmmaker Christian Jilka and Vietnamese-German producer Mai Nguyen (who also produces with CineHanoi). The company’s last title, Kim Quy Bui’s 2021 drama Memory, screened at Berlin and Busan.
The TFL co-production fund was set up in 2019 and aims to support co-productions between European and international producers at development stage. Previous recipients have included The Sky Is Mine from Nepalese filmmaker Deepak Rauniyar in 2019 and Chocobar from Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel in 2020.
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