Phillip Noyce, the Australian director of “The quiet American,” will visit Vietnam to promote his authorized biography and meet film and media personalities around the country from May 27 to June 8.

His visit will begin with the promotion of Backroads to Hollywood by Ingo Petzke about Noyce’s journey in Hollywood as an outsider.

It will be the first translated version to be published anywhere in Southeast Asia.

At the event, Noyce will meet cinema experts, talk about the book, and talk to the media.

On May 28 he will hold a workshop on filmmaking techniques for students and media experts at Lotus University.

On May 31 he will meet filmmakers in Hanoi. He will visit cinema academies in both cities.

Noyce was in Hanoi last October to head the jury for the first Vietnam International Film Festival.

He was born in 1950 in New South Wales and made his first short “Better to Reign in Hell” at the age of 18.

“The Quiet American” got rave reviews and appeared in more than 20 top ten lists in 2002, including those of the US National Board of Review and the American Film Institute.

Source: Tuoi Tre