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Los Angeles casting opportunity for HOW TO RIDE A BIKE, an upcoming Vietnamese American short film project from director...
03/07/2026

Los Angeles casting opportunity for HOW TO RIDE A BIKE, an upcoming Vietnamese American short film project from director Bao Nguyen (THE STRINGER, THE GREATEST NIGHT IN POP, BTS: THE RETURN), in collaboration with Cate Blanchett's Displacement Film Fund (DFF), shooting in Los Angeles, California, USA in August 2026.

Storyline: A Vietnamese refugee raising his son alone in Southern California has never learned to ride a bicycle. When eight-year-old Tommy begs him to teach him, Linh tries - and fails. Rather than admit the truth, he secretly enrolls in an adult cycling class, where he finds himself among strangers whose lives, like his, were shaped by what they never got the chance to learn. A film about the quiet things displacement takes, and a father and son learning to ride together.

Cảm ơn Creo Artist Management!
18/05/2026

Cảm ơn Creo Artist Management!

"Bao Nguyen--the Vietnamese-American filmmaker and founding partner of East Films--is known for his directorial work, in...
18/05/2026

"Bao Nguyen--the Vietnamese-American filmmaker and founding partner of East Films--is known for his directorial work, including The Stringer, Be Water, The Greatest Night in Pop and BTS: The Return.

Project: How to Ride a Bike (working title) (U.S./Vietnam)
“A Vietnamese refugee father who never learned to ride a bike tries to teach his young son, and when he fails, begins learning in secret, confronting a lifelong shame he has carried since boyhood.”

Rithy Panh and Akuol de Mabior will also make short films under the second round of the grant scheme backed by the star and the International Film Festival Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund.

A Variety Cannes exclusive! EAST is excited to continue the journey with Kontribute & writer-director Nguyễn Thiên Ân in...
17/05/2026

A Variety Cannes exclusive! EAST is excited to continue the journey with Kontribute & writer-director Nguyễn Thiên Ân in developing his Festival de Cannes nominated short film into a feature. But first, we are looking forward to its world premiere on May 22nd!

East Films and Kontribute are developing Nguyễn Thiên Ân's debut feature, adapted from the first Vietnamese short to compete at Cannes.

The road to Festival de Cannes! We will be sharing news directly from the Croisette.
15/05/2026

The road to Festival de Cannes! We will be sharing news directly from the Croisette.

"Director Marie Jamora (“What Isn’t There”) is set to direct “Imprint” from a script by Charlene Sawit-Esguerra, with Ta...
14/05/2026

"Director Marie Jamora (“What Isn’t There”) is set to direct “Imprint” from a script by Charlene Sawit-Esguerra, with Tan Si En of Momo Film Co. and Anderson Le of East Films as producing partners. Actor Liza Soberano, set to appear in DreamWorks’ upcoming “Forgotten Island,” is attached as executive producer. The supernatural thriller follows a Filipino-American woman who returns to the Philippines after her father’s murder and discovers a psychic ability she must use to track a serial killer moving between the physical and spirit worlds."

Night Market Studios debuts four-film Asian genre slate at the Cannes market with 'The Conjuring' writers as executive producers.

More great news leading up to Festival de Cannes
08/05/2026

More great news leading up to Festival de Cannes

“CỖ MÁY ỐC SÊN” (THE SNAIL AUTOMATION) - Dự án phim Điện ảnh đầu tay của đạo diễn trẻ Nguyễn Thiên Ân được lựa chọn vào Focus CO’PRO 2026 - chương trình đào tạo và networking trong khuôn khổ Liên hoan phim Cannes, dành riêng cho các dự án đầu tay triển vọng! 🎬

Ngày xửa ngày xưa, Đạo diễn Nguyễn Thiên Ân từng chia sẻ rằng ảnh muốn làm một phim hài slaptick action comedy đỉnh cao với cỗ máy ốc sên, nhà bác học điên và biệt thự nổ tung,… Nhưng ý tưởng nghe có vẻ thật xa tầm với, nên thôi, mình gói ghém nó lại trong hình hài của phim ngắn “Giấc Mơ Là Ốc Sên”, với sự hỗ trợ từ Dự án phim ngắn CJ - CJ Short Film, sản xuất bởi Kontribute, Command+Art và EAST Films.

Và rồi, ‘giấc mơ’ ấy đã đi được một bước xaaa, đã phần nào được công nhận. Đó cũng là lúc ý tưởng nguyên thuỷ của Ốc Sên có cơ hội trở lại - với một tầm nhìn hoàn toàn mới 🐌

To be Kontinued 😎

27/04/2026

Sau Tiệm Ăn Của Quỷ và Tử Chiến Trên Không, Đạo diễn Hàm Trần tiếp tục khai thác chất liệu tâm linh - nhân quả quen thuộc trong phim điện ảnh mới Sợi Chỉ Đỏ. Tác phẩm lộ diện “hình hài” của body horror, hứa hẹn những trải nghiệm rùng rợn hơn trên màn ảnh rộng.
🧶 Sợi Chỉ Đỏ - Dự kiến khởi chiếu: 14.08.2026 (Tháng Cô Hồn).

Marking Ham Tran’s return to the genre he helped redefine in Vietnam, RED THREAD brings you the next horror experience. Only in cinemas.

🧶 Red Thread - August 14, 2026.

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