The third annual Vietnamese online short film festival YxineFF 2012, themed “Individual”, has announced its jury board.

Actress Do Hai Yen will be a judge of this year's YxineFF

The judges include director Phan Dang Di, actress Do Hai Yen, film producer Tran Thi Bich Ngoc, cameraman Nguyen K’Linh, and translator Cao Viet Dung.

“YxineFF has been a good opportunity for local future filmmakers who always need straight and honest conversations with themselves, with their colleagues, and with audiences before deciding to pursue their dream on the filmmaking road, which is more rough than smooth,” director Phan Dang Di said.

This year’s festival will also be the first time the event is open to international entries. “We want to strengthen the local community and reach the international dimension of the festival, which has been the goal of YxineFF from the beginning,” Marcus Vu Manh Cuong, head of the festival, said.

The festival will accept entries until July 15. It is also scheduled to open with advance events around the world, including a screening titled “Best of YxineFF” on April 22 at the University of California, Los Angeles within the framework of the sixth biennial Cinema Symposium, before officially kicking off in Vietnam in September.

Last month, YxineFF organized a screening and discussion about recent Vietnamese cinema at Malessherbes Centre, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne.

First launched in 2010 by the Sai Gon Media Company, local film aficionados, and cinema practitioners, YxineFF aims to broaden the independent film-making community in Vietnam and offer local filmmakers an opportunity to promote their works worldwide.

Last year, it attracted 2 million viewers of the more than 100 entries posted on the festival’s website.
 

Source: Tuoi tre