Ms. Le Thi Ha, Director of the Film Institute, said: Over the past many years, the exploitation and dissemination of revolutionary cinema heritage in general, and Vietnamese war-themed films in particular, has always been one of the top priority tasks that the Vietnam Film Institute has focused on investing in.
It is known that since 2023, from the Deputy Head of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Ms. Le Thi Ha was awarded the decision of Director of the Vietnam Film Institute by Minister Nguyen Van Hung. After that, there were years of enthusiastic and creative contributions with the Film Institute's leadership to continuously improve the unit.
Leaving a strong impression at the 3rd Da Nang Asian Film Festival, Ms. Le Thi Ha expressed her gratitude for the attention, facilitation, connection, and support of the Festival Organizing Committee, the leaders of the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, and Ms. Ngo Phuong Lan, President of the Association for Promotion and Development of Cinema, allowing the Film Institute to participate in a number of key programs and contribute to the breakthrough development and success of the festival.
I have also witnessed how excited the people here are about the Film Festival, especially when they know that there will be free screenings of golden, once-famous films such as Canh Dong Hoang, Ra Nam vao Bac, Sinh Menh, Truyen thuy Quan Tien ... that the older generations who have seen it once still want to see it again and the younger generation still long to enjoy it to understand more about their fathers and brothers. That really warms the hearts of veterans like us who have gone through two wars.
Inheriting and promoting the solid foundation created by previous generations, the next generation of the Institute has been building and consolidating the unit to develop more and more, integrating sustainably. The work of repairing, preserving, and digitizing films has always been focused on; films are periodically rotated, wiped, and washed with chemicals with the number of films reaching more than 11,000 each year. Many films of historical value have been successfully restored such as: Ho Chi Minh - Portrait of a man; The South in my heart; The last moments of Uncle Ho's life; Nguyen Ai Quoc comes to Lenin; Pac Po source water; Dien Bien Phu victory ...
In order to complete the collection, prolong the life of the films, serve the work of archiving and exploiting documents effectively, the Institute has planned and regularly carried out the printing and transferring of expired films, films lacking copies to new film copies on film materials, digital betacam tapes to digital files with 2K and 4K resolution. Up to now, the Institute has 1,500 Vietnamese feature film files, 2,030 documentary film files, 615 animated film files, and hundreds of files on cinema activists, general issues about cinema... This is a valuable source of documents for research, study and display and exhibition.
In particular, in foreign affairs, the Film Institute has good relations with many Film Archives around the world and was the first Film Institute in Southeast Asia to successfully organize the 60th Conference of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) in 2004. The Institute is also one of the founding members of the Association of Southeast Asian- Pacific Audiovisual Archives (SEAPAVVA) in 1995 and successfully organized 4 SEAPAVVA Conferences in 1998, 2004, 2012, 2021. The prestige and position of the Vietnam Film Institute are increasingly affirmed in the region and internationally.
During the 45 years of construction and development, Vietnam Film Institute has been awarded the Emulation Flag and Certificate of Merit by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for many consecutive years; honored as the leading unit in the emulation movement of the Cinema Sector, and proposed to the Government to award the Emulation Flag.
Director Le Thi Ha expressed that the noble titles are the motivation for the Vietnam Film Institute to continue promoting creativity and making efforts to become a strong, professional unit, worthy of being the leading film archive in the country and Southeast Asia, gradually on par with major film institutes in the world.
Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/vien-phim-viet-nam-luu-giu-kho-tang-phim-chien-tranh-post803750.html
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