Viet Film Fest to kick off with ‘Huong Ga’ The Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) will hold its eighth annual Viet Film Fest on April 16-19, 2015 at the UltraLuxe Cinemas in Anaheim, California. This year’s festival will kick off with a special screening of the award winning film Huong Ga directed by Nguyen Vo Nguyen Minh. The film based on a fiction novel by Nguyen Dinh Tu, Huong Ga tells the story of a young female Vietnamese gang leader in Saigon. Thirty-one films, including 10 movies and 21 short films, from Vietnam, Australia, Canada, Japan, Brazil and the US will be screened at the Viet Film Fest 2015. Queen Mother’s rickshaw to be displayed in Hue A rickshaw used by Queen Mother Tu Minh, mother of King Thanh Thai (1879-1954) will be display at Dien Tho Palace in Hue royal citadel, Thua Thien-Hue province, on April 22, together with some other royal artefacts. The Hue Monuments Conservation Centre bought the rickshaw an … [Read more...] about Art & Entertainment News 15/4