{"id":443325,"date":"2026-05-11T14:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443325\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:04:08","slug":"bao-nguyen-produced-movie-reveal-trailer-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443325\/","title":{"rendered":"Bao Nguyen-Produced Movie Reveal Trailer & Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: The producers of Nguyen-Vo Nghiem-Minh\u2019s Picturehouse<\/a>, a co-production between Vietnam<\/a>, Singapore, France and the U.S., have dropped trailer and revealed cast on the eve of the Cannes market.<\/p>\n

\n\tInspired by the writer-director\u2019s childhood, the historical coming-of-age drama is set in 1960s South Vietnam where a family-run theater becomes a haven for an eight-year-old boy who leans on the magic of cinema to grow up amid a divisive war.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe boy and his fellow townfolk draw hope from the flickering images and heroic stories they consume through Japanese samurai films and Hollywood Westerns, French New Wave and Hong Kong martial arts pics, while the war drags on outside.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film was executive produced by Bao Nguyen<\/a>, who is also attending Cannes as a producer on Vietnamese short film The Dream Is A Snail, which has been selected to compete for the Short Film Palme d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt is a fictional story inspired by the lives of the people that I not only knew, but looked up to and loved growing up in my grandfather\u2019s cinema. The physical movie house becomes the place that projects possible worlds beyond the war, so that the all-too-real violence can be turned back into fantasy on a bed-sheet screen made by my mother,\u201d said director Minh, who spent six years developing the personal film.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe cast of Picturehouse, revealed for the first time, is headed by rising Vietnamese stars Tran The Manh<\/a> and Khazsak<\/a>. Manh\u2019s credits include short film Before The Sea Forgets, which premiered at Cannes\u2019 Directors\u2019 Fortnight, and Ky Nam Inn, selected for Toronto\u2019s Special Presentations. Picturehouse marks his leading role debut in a feature film.<\/p>\n

\n\tKhazsak\u2019s credits include Vietnamese features The Real Sister and B4S, and Korean film The Land Of Morning Calm, winner of multiple awards at Busan in 2024, including the New Currents prize.<\/p>\n

\n\tPicturehouse is produced by Singapore\u2019s Add Oil Films<\/a>, U.S. production houses Green Snapper Productions<\/a> and East Films<\/a>, France\u2019s Girelle Production and Vietnam\u2019s HKFilm. It has the support of real estate management company Druce, Singapore Film Commission, and Organization Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF).<\/p>\n

\n\tBao worked closely with Minh as producer and cinematographer on the director\u2019s Nuoc 2030, the opening film of Berlinale\u2019s Panorama section in 2014.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe film feels both intimate and epic, capturing childhood, first love, imagination, and the transformative power of cinema against the backdrop of a country in turmoil. More than a war story, it\u2019s a beautiful love letter to moviegoing itself and to the memories and people that shape us,\u201d said Bao.<\/p>\n

\n\tPicturehouse was shot on location in Minh\u2019s seaside hometown Vung Tau, about 100km from Ho Chi Minh City. CJ CGV will handle theatrical release in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film was shot by Vietnamese cinematographer Nguyen Phan Linh Dan, who will be presented with the Ang\u00e9nieux Special Encouragement award during the Pierre Ang\u00e9nieux Tribute ceremony at Cannes, in recognition of her work as an emerging cinematographer.<\/p>\n

\n\tSometimes credited as Minh Nguyen-Vo<\/a>, Minh made his feature debut with 2004\u2019s Buffalo Boy, which won multiple awards including the youth jury prize at Locarno where it had its world premiere, and was Vietnam\u2019s submission for the 2006 Oscars in the Best Foreign-language Film category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: The producers of Nguyen-Vo Nghiem-Minh\u2019s Picturehouse, a co-production between Vietnam, Singapore, France and the U.S., have dropped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[193001,193002,93,193003,61,60,193004,193005,270,193006,61124,193007,7562],"class_list":["post-443325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bao-nguyen","tag-east-films","tag-entertainment","tag-green-snapper-productions","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-khazsak","tag-minh-nguyen-vo","tag-movies","tag-oil-films","tag-picturehouse","tag-tran-the-manh","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}