Section: Focus

V.I.P. - Vietnamese Important People

V.I.P. - Vietnamese Important People

Lukáš Kokeš
Czech Republic, 2013, 26 Min

They are young, talented and have only one aspiration: to be the best. This short documentary accompanies three ambitious twentysomethings of Vietnamese origin as they discuss life in the Czech Republic and Vietnam, as well as hopes for the future and parental expectations. All things "Vietnamese" play a rather subordinate role for them.

Czech Television - Teleexport

Having followed the wishes of his parents and studied economics Duc Viet, alias Dužan Duong, later revises his career plans and enrolls at the FAMU film school, Prague. The success of his first two films MAT GOC (2014) and BO HAI (2017), which feature in this year's FOCUS and U18 YOUTH FILM COMPETITION, provide proof of the success he has experienced after V.I.P. was released. Then there is Jackie, a high-flying web designer in the privileged position of being able to reject lucrative job offers from the States. Fashion photographer Angelina on the other hand has a path to career success come her way in the form of an offer from Vietnam. Yet why should she move there?

Director Lukáš Kokeš skillfully combines snippets from the lives of three second-generation Vietnamese living in Prague. Their stories depart significantly from well-established narratives, exemplifying the manifold identities and motive forces of the Vietnamese diaspora in Europe. DD

Filmformat
HDCAM | Doc. | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Lukáš Kokeš
Kamera
Lukáš Kokeš, Prokop Souček
Ton
Adam Levý, Dominik Dolejši
Schnitt
Lukáš Kokeš
Darsteller
Duc Viet Duong, Jackie Tran, Angelina Nga Le, Hoang Yen
Produzent
Jana Havelková
Produktion
Czech Television - Teleexport
Kontakt
Czech Television - Teleexport
Lubos Kriz
Kavči hory
14070 Prague
Czech Republic
+42,025,61,13,71 51
www.ceskatelevize.cz
lubos.kriz@ceskatelevize.cz
Lukáš Kokeš

Lukáš Kokeš - born in 1983. A graduate of the FAMU film school in Prague, he has since been working as a director and cinematographer, creating a number of documentaries in the process. His feature- length documentary PEVNOST, which was co-directed by Klára Tasovská, won best Czech documentary at Jihlava IDFF in 2012.

Movies
POKUS O DUCHOVNÍ NÁPRAVU OPRAVÁŘE TELEVIZÍ JOSEFA LÁVIČKY V DEVÍTI OBRAZECH (2008, short, doc)
PEVNOST (2012, doc)
GOTTLAND (2014, doc)
ČESKÁ FOTKA (2015, TV-series, doc)