Stay Awake Be Ready
Hãy tỉnh thức và sẵn sàng
Vietnam, South Korea, USA | 2019 | DCP | Color | 14 min | Pham Thien An
SATURDAY 3 | FILMIN LATINO | 24 HRS. | 14 MIN
TUESDAY 6 | CINEMEX INSURGENTES SALA 5 | 20:00 HRS. | 103 MIN
Director: Pham Thien An
Screenplay: Pham Thien An
Producer: Pham Thien An, Tran Van Thi
Cinematography: Dinh Duy Hung
Editing: Pham Thien An
Sound: Do Vu, Tamas Steger
Cast: Le Quoc Bao Vi, Vu Trong Tuyen, Trung Dong Cao, Be Hieu, Huynh Ngoc Hanh

Synopsis:
A motorbike crash happening before the street stalls on a street corner was embedded in the mysterious story of three young men.
Biography:
Pham Thien An is a film director, producer and screenwriter, born in Nov 1989 (Lam Dong Province, Vietnam). After four years of undergraduate studies in Information Technology at Lotus University, Ho Chi Minh City, he realized his interest in cinematography and filmmaking. In recent years, he has won several film awards in Vietnam. In 2015, he moved to Houston, Texas (USA) and continued working as a freelance filmmaker. His short film The Mute (2018) has travelled across several film festivals (Winterthur, Palms Spring, Uppsala, Encounters…). And also, this year he shot Stay Awake, Be Ready was supported by CJ Short Film Making Project. He is currently working on his first feature film Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell.

Festivals:
51° Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Cannes –Illy Award for Best Short Film– 2019, France
Locarno Film Festival –Open Doors Screening– 2019, Switzerland
Contact:
Flavio Armone, Salvo Cutaia, Greta Fornari
lightson@lightsonfilm.org