Poet Hoang Nhuan Cam left a vacancy in the Film Appraisal Council

Poet Hoang Nhuan Cam died suddenly, causing the National Film Appraisal Council, which was just established by the Cinema Department, to suddenly appear a staff vacancy.

Poet and screenwriter Hoang Nhuan Cam has just passed away on the afternoon of April 20. Poet Hoang Nhuan Cam also a skilled screenwriter, with famous movie scripts such as “Long Tri Night”, “Winter 1946”, “The Scent of Fire” … Poet Hoang Nhuan Cam is always a candidate. invited to screen contests and film festivals. On April 19, the Cinema Department announced the establishment of four film evaluation boards for the 2021-2023 term, including the Central Council for evaluating and classifying feature films, the Central Council for evaluating and classifying short films, and the Association. The Central Council evaluates and selects the screenplay of feature films, the Central Council evaluates and selects the short film scripts. In which, poet Hoang Nhuan Cam is one of the 9 members of the Central Council who appraises and selects the screenplay of feature films. However, on April 20, when 4 official film evaluation boards were launched and operated, poet Hoang Nhuan Cam died at the age of 69. That is, the Central Council appraised and selected the film’s script. story suddenly had a blank. Who will replace poet Hoang Nhuan Cam in the Central Council for evaluation and selection of feature films? New personnel are being considered, but finding a person with literary and cinematic capacity like poet Hoang Nhuan Cam is not easy. Because, the script is still the biggest obsession for the stagnation of the seventh art in the country. Director of Cinema Department – Vi Kien Thanh shared: “Cinema is like theater, you have to face the problem of scarcity of good scenarios. Theater, a script can be adapted and used in many different types of stages, but cinema is more difficult. The purchase of foreign scripts has brought new vitality to domestic cinema, but if we do not lay the foundation for cinema by encouraging and building a team to create scripts, it will create a gap in the development link of cinema ”.