ViFF 2009 Call-for-entries! Deadline of submissions: December 31, 2008!

Hello Friends,

Please distribute far and wide! Thank you! Please see the attached files for the Vietnamese and (oui!) French versions!

Cheers,

Ysa Le

ViFF 2009 Co-Director

For immediate release

Contact: vietfilmfest@yahoo.com ; website: www.VietFilmFest.com

Tel. (714) 893-6145

CALL FOR ENTRIES

ViFF 2009

The Fourth Edition of the biennial Vietnamese International Film Festival (ViFF)

Coming to University of California, Irvine (UCI), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Westminster, Southern California in April 2009

PRODUCTIONS ELIGIBLE FOR CONSIDERATION:

Feature-length and short productions of any content (not necessarily related to Vietnam or Vietnamese) by persons of Vietnamese descent living anywhere around the world or productions about Vietnamese people or culture in the following categories:

- Narrative

- Documentary

- Experimental

- Animation

NO ENTRY FEE!

ENTRY DEADLINE:

Entries MUST BE POSTMARKED no later than December 31, 2008. We will announce the final selection at the end of February 2008.

For more information and a PDF of our entry form, please visit www.VietFilmFest.com . Please email vietfilmfest@yahoo.com if you have any questions.

ViFF's mission is to support, celebrate, and project a diversity of visions and voices from filmmakers of Vietnamese descent and films by, for, and about the Vietnamese people and culture.

The Vietnamese International Film Festival (ViFF) is an eight-day event uniquely showcasing films made by Vietnamese and Vietnamese diasporic filmmakers. Presented biennially since 2003 by the two non-profit organizations Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) and Vietnamese Language & Culture (VNLC), ViFF has featured films from all over the world, including but not limited to Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Poland, United States, and Vietnam.

ViFF is held mainly at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), with some screenings at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Westminster, Southern California. Each edition, ViFF attracts around 4,000 people coming from all over the world.

Ysa D. Le

Executive Director

Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA)

www.vaala.org

www.VietFilmFest.com