VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi’s Goethe Institute will host the second DocNet Southeast Asia Summer School from June 8–17, a boon to the region’s emerging documentary filmmakers.

Twenty young documentary filmmakers from Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Laos, the Philippines, and Vietnam will exchange experiences and learn from some of the field’s most internationally respected personalities.

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich will teach a storytelling and cinematography workshop while experienced French editor Aurelie Ricard will tutor an editing workshop.

Leonard Retel Helmrich is a Dutch cinematographer and film director. His documentary films have received some of the world’s highest filmmaking honours, including the World Documentary Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Helmrich was instrumental in the development of “Single Shot Cinema”, a cinematographic style comprised of long takes and smooth, hand-held camera operation from a variety of angles.

Beginning in the late 60s during the French Nouvelle Vague, Aurelie Ricard has been a professional editor for more than 40 years, working on dramatic and documentary productions for both cinema and TV.

The Summer School also encompasses the first round table discussion on the future of Vietnamese documentary films, scheduled for June 13.

Foreign directors including Germany’s Heidi Specogna, and France’s Patrick Chauvel, and Anna Pitoun will lecture at the event.

DocNet Southeast Asia is a project initiated by the Goethe Institute and funded by the EuropeAid programme “Investing in People”. It aims to support the professionalisation of documentary filmmaking in Southeast Asia.

Source: VOV