Mr. Thac Chuyen Bui – Member of jury Board For Feature Length Films
Director, screenwriter – member
Mr. Thac Chuyen Bui was born in 1968 in Hanoi, graduated in Acting from Hanoi University of Theater and Cinema and has been the main actor of Vietnam Drama Theater since 1990.
Since 1991, he has participated in making short films, TV – series and attended a Directing class from Hanoi University of Theater and Cinema. He is the first Vietnamese director who has won the Cinefondation short film category at the 2000 Cannes International Film Festival with the film “Cuoc Xe Dem”. His first feature film, “Song Trong So Hai” (“Living in Fear”), won numerous national and international awards. The second film, “Choi Voi”, (“Adrift”) was selected to the Venice Film Festival and won the award of the International Federation of Film Critics, Fipresci. He is also the founder and executive director of the Film Talent Development Support Center (TPD) of Vietnam Cinema Association since 2002, making short film projects, building the first film library in Vietnam funded by the Ford Foundation to support the careers of young Vietnamese filmmakers.