LookAtVietnam – Vietnamese director Nguyen Vinh Son has won the “Best Asian Director” award at the Imagine India Film Festival in Madrid for his movie Trang noi day gieng (Moon at the bottom of the well), Thanh Nien reports.

“I am happy because Trang noi day gieng has continued to enjoy praise at a film festival even though I did not attend the festival,” said Son. In December, the film’s heroine Hong Anh won the Best Actress award at the Dubai International Film Festival 2008. Thereafter, the film took the Silver Kite award for the Best Feature Film at the 2008 Golden Kite Awards, Vietnam’s premier film awards.

Son said that the movie would be entered in other international film festivals in the coming time such as the Sydney Film Awards in Australia, the Munich Film Awards in Germany and other film festivals in the U.S. and in Vancouver, Canada.

VietNamNet/SGT