Influential Vietnamese: Jenni Trang Le, a Leader in the New Viet Film Wave
On challenges
What Saigon and the general Vietnam filmmaking community lacks right now is good writers – she doesn’t know why this is the case for the time being (Chim: I think rote educational practices is to blame)
Right now, directors are writing their own films, because they have to (google the aforementioned list of films Jenni has worked on)
Pretty mucheverything she has learned about filmmaking had to be thrown out the window once she started in Vietnam
Here, you have to be on your feet and go with the flow – there is always a lot of problem-solving