Hồ Quang Minh Explained

Hồ Quang Minh
Birth Name:Hồ Quang Minh
Birth Place:Hanoi, Vietnam
Awards:?
Death Place:Saigon,
Occupation:Director, writer
Years Active:1962–2000

Hồ Quang Minh (胡光明, 1949–2020) was a Vietnamese-born Swiss film director.[1]

Biography

Hồ Quang Minh left Vietnam to study in Switzerland about 1962, then worked in France as an assistant on Lê Lâm's Poussière d'empire, before studying in Switzerland and taking Swiss citizenship.[2] [3]

In 1996, his film Gone, Gone Forever Gone was selected as the Vietnamese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 69th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[4]

Filmography

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/actions-france_830/cinema_886/aides-production_5622/films-aides_5623/films-aides-par-fonds-sud_5624/vietnam_6801/temps-revolu_6810/ho-quang-minh_17713.html Le Temps Révolu 2004
  2. New York Magazine - 20 Jul 1987 - Page 65 Vol. 20, No. 28 "... drama of a South Vietnamese soldier and his fiancee, set in Saigon during the late 1960s. A Vietnamese-Swiss co-production shot in Ho Chi Minh City and directed by Hanoi-born filmmaker Ho Quang Minh, who has become a Swiss citizen."
  3. East-West encounters: Franco-Asian cinema and literature - Page 122 Sylvie Blum-Reid - 2003 "The case of Ho Quang Minh, who directed Karma (1985), is interesting in that respect. He went to Russia and then France in the 1980s, where he was an assistant on Lam Le's Poussiere d'empire. Now living in Switzerland, he has his own ..."
  4. Web site: 39 Countries Hoping for Oscar Nominations . . 13 November 1996 . 5 October 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/19990209110950/http://www.oscars.org/pressreleases/96.11.13.html . 9 February 1999 . dead . dmy-all .
  5. Web site: Phim cũ của đạo diễn Hồ Quang tham dự LHP Phật giáo . 2012-08-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120816014914/http://www.vnmedia.vn/VN/van-hoa/tin-tuc/58_298135/phim_cu_cua_dao_dien_ho_quang_tham_du_lhp_phat_giao.html . 2012-08-16 . dead .
  6. http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/thoi-xa-vang/ A Time Far Past 2004