The Rotten Log
Animation/Vietnam/10 min/2020
Production: Vietnam Animation Film Joint Stock Company
Director: NSND Nguyễn Thị Phương Hoa
Screenwriter: Phan Đức Tuấn – Nguyễn Thị Phương Hoa
Artist: Phạm Phương Như Ý
Music: NSND Trọng Đài
Synopsis:
The story is about the Rotten Log that was once the most important part of the bow of a large boat, called the “Head Live”. It used to lead the boat through the winds and waves on ocean to everywhere in order to conquer many foreign lands… Now, only as a Log of Wood, lying on the deserted shore, it often dreamed of the heroic past then it feels that it is just a lonely rotten log which has been forgotten by life and life now seems to become meaningless…
…Oh no, however, its life still remains meaningful when it is still full of affection and sympathy for the people around, especially with the Little Bird, whom it sacrificed its whole body to create such a miracle.
Director’s biography:
People’s Artist Nguyen Thi Phuong Hoa has worked as a director and main illustrator of over 50 animated films and won many awards in National Film Festivals, the Kite Award of the Vietnam Cinema Association. She was conferred the title of excellent artist in 2001, People’s Artist in 2012, and was awarded the State Prize for Literature and Art in 2017.