“Look to Vietnam” is a documentary filmmaking contest organised by Discovery Asia channel for Vietnamese filmmakers. Contestants will have a hand in drafting the contents of a 30-minute documentary about urbanisation in Vietnam.

Discovery will choose at least 12 filmmakers for a short training course in Hanoi this September. The five best filmmakers will have a chance to work with Uproar Asia, which specialises in producing documentaries and TV programmes, to make their own documentaries, funded by the Ford Foundation.

These movies will be broadcast on Discovery channel, in a series of documentaries entitled “Look to Vietnam”.

Uproar Asia, a subsidiary of London-based Uproar Production, will supervise the competition from the beginning to the end.

A website will be launched in early August to receive applications from competitors. Filmmakers can also send applications to Red Bridge Company, 1 Trang Tien, Hanoi as of now. 

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