Event

As part of the Guest Lecture Series for 2024, the Vietnamese Language Program is hosting a movie screening of Three Seasons and a discussion with the director, Tony Bui. See below for details.

Three Seasons is an award winning movie shot in Vietnam during the Đổi Mới (Innovation) Period. It was recently remastered and came back for the 40th anniversary of the Sundance Film Festival in January 2024. It won the Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award, and Cinematography Award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and two Independent Spirit Award nominations.

Tony Bui is a writer, director, and producer. He is the co-founder of LEAP (Lotus Entertainment and Arts Productions) which supports stories of diverse voices. His films include Yellow Lotus, Three Seasons, Green Dragon, and The Throwaways. His short film, Yellow Lotus, received over 15 national and international festival prizes. He is a recipient of the Humanitas Prize and a graduate of the Sundance Institute's Screenwriting and Directing Labs. He has written and developed projects for NBC, Warner Bros, and HBO, and is currently developing a narrative feature film about Nick Ut's Pulitzer Prize winning "Napalm Girl" photo.

Tony has taught film directing at Loyola Marymount University and previously served on the Board of Directors of Film Independent, and is currently on the Global Advisory Board of Fulbright University Vietnam. Tony is currently Artist in Residence at Columbia University and teaching in the School of Arts graduate film program.