Independent film producer Tran Bich Ngoc, who has worked with Oliver Stone and M. Night Shyamalan, will compete in the International Young Creative Entrepreneur contest to be held in the UK this month.
She will go to the UK on a 10-12 day trip and get opportunities to network with the UK film industry and participants from other countries and attend the London Film Festival, according to the British Council in Vietnam.
The contest is scheduled for October 13-23.
Ngoc won the first prize at this year’s International Young Screen Entrepreneur Award organized in July by the British Council to select the Vietnamese contestant to the competition.
She has worked with international crews for “The Vertical Ray of The Sun” by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung, “The Quiet American” by Australian Phillip Noyce, and “The Last Airbender” by India-born M. Night Shyamalan.
Stone chose Ngoc as the local producer when he was preparing to shoot the film “Pinkville” in 2007. However, the project was postponed due to Writers Guild of America strike in 2007 and 2008.
Ngoc produced films for the Hanoi Audiovisual Company and Vietnam Feature Film Studio from 1998 to 2001 before switching to advertising with which she remains involved.
She remains involved with several international movie productions.
The annual International Young Creative Entrepreneur Award Program is organized as part of the Creative Enterprises project organized by the global British Council since 2004.
There are currently nine awards across different sectors of the creative industries -- music, design, fashion, film, communications, art performance, visual arts, publishing, and architecture.
It will be for the second time that Vietnam will participate in this award after debuting in 2008.
