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RMIT University, the Victoria State Office of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the Asian Institute for Social Studies in Australia, and Vietnam – Australia Policy Institute have organized a special event in Melbourne to look back on the past 50 years of Vietnam-Australia relations and seek opportunities and development trends for their relationship in the way ahead, VNA reported Tuesday . Attending the event were Senator Tim Ayres, Australia’s Assistant Minister for Trade and Assistant Minister for Manufacturing; many senior Victorian government officials; Vietnamese Ambassador to Australia Nguyen Tat Thanh; Professor Alec Cameron, rector of RMIT University; and about 60 business leaders of the two countries. Vietnamese Ambassador to Australia Nguyen Tat Thanh speaks at the event. Photo: VNA Speaking at the event, Senator Tim Ayres, Australia’s Assistant Minister for Trade and Assistant Minister for Manufacturing, emphasised that Australia – Vietnam r...

(CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT) DUONG DIEU LINH, EMIR EZWAN, ANG GECK GECK, QUANG NONG NHAT, UKRIT SA-NGUANHAI. COURTESY OF PURIN PICTURES Bangkok-based film fund Purin Pictures has selected five projects from Southeast Asia as the recipients of its spring 2023 funding round, which will receive a combined $120,000 in production grants, Screen Daily reported Monday. The titles include Duong Dieu Linh’s feature debut Don’t Cry, Butterfly and Quang Nong Nhat’s documentary Baby Jackfruit, Baby Guava. “Over the past several years, Vietnam in particular has proved to be a bright spot in the region for cinema,” said Aditya Assarat, co-director of Purin Pictures. “You could say we are in the midst of a Vietnamese New Wave,” adding that these two projects have a confident personal style that is indicative of a new generation of Vietnamese filmmakers. Director Duong Dieu Linh’s “Don’t Cry Butterfly,” is about forty-something housewife Tam, who discovers her husband’s affair and decid...