Angels Gate Cultural Center - Buffalo Boy Screening

ANGELS GATE CULTURAL CENTER
and the Warner Grand Theater present the L.A. premiere of

Screening followed by a champagne reception and a special discussion with director/screenwriter
Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo

Download Flyer (pdf) to print
Press Release 1/04/06
Production Photography
The Making of Buffalo Boy
Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo's Biography

View Quicktime Movie trailer - Large screen (subtitled in French)
View Quicktime Movie trailer - Small screen (subtitled in French)
View Windows Media Video trailer (subtitled in French)
Movie screening will be presented with English subtitles

Buffalo Boy "centers on a teenager whose journey from innocence to knowledge is also a meditation on both the natural and very unnatural state of things... The filmmaker certainly knows the power of his chosen medium... The world in Buffalo Boy is filled with wonder, but it is a world also filled with real desire, real death, not abstractions." - Manohla Dargis, New York Times

Awards for Buffalo Boy:

FIPRESCI Award - Best Foreign Language Film, Palm Springs International Film Festival
Best Director, Cape Town World Cinema Festival, South Africa
Youth Jury Prize, Locarno International Film Festival
Grand Prize, Golden Unicorn Award, Amiens International Film Festival
Best New Director, Chicago International Film Festival
First Jury Prize, Amazonas International Film Festival
Grand Prize, Asian Marine Film Festival
Best Cinematography, Asian Pacific Film Festival
Culture and Art Award in Cinema, Hochiminh Cty, Vietnam

excerpt from the Palm Springs International Film Festival website:
"A special jury of international film critics reviewed the official Best Foreign Language submissions to the Academy Awards screened at this year's Festival to award the FIPRESCI Award for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year. This year the jury selected Buffalo Boy, the submission from Vietnam. Director Minh Nguyen-Vo's feature debut is a coming-of-age journey through French Indochina shortly before World War II. A teenaged boy transports his family's buffalos to greener pastures during the seasonal floods and discovers the joys and challenges of masculine ritual."

Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo was raised in a rural area much like Buffalo Boy's terrain. This is his first feature film, and VIETNAM'S OFFICIAL ENTRY for the 2005 ACADEMY AWARDS.

Writer/Director Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo lives in San Pedro, with his wife, Dr. Anh Long and their two children.

Join filmmaker Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo at the

Warner Grand Theater
January 28, 2006 at 7:30 pm

438 West Sixth St., San Pedro (on Sixth St, just east of Pacific Ave.)
Discussion will be held in the Warner Grand after the screening. Champagne reception with Vietnamese food will be held across the street at the new Warschaw Gallery in the Pacific Warner Buildng at 601 S. Pacific Ave.

COME SEE THE L.A. PREMIERE OF AN EXTRAORDINARY NEW FILM AND SUPPORT
ANGELS GATE CULTURAL CENTER'S ANNUAL FUND AT THE SAME TIME.

Tickets: $10 (film only) - $20 (film and reception)

Tickets are available online at: www.warnergrand.org (click on the tickets link) and may also be purchased at:

Angels Gate Cultural Center, Building A, 3601 South Gaffey St., San Pedro,

The Whale and Ale Restaurant, 327 W. 7th St., San Pedro,

Williams Book Store, 443 W. Sixth St., San Pedro, 310.832.3631,

and at the BOX OFFICE the night of the L.A. PREMIERE, before the 7:30 Screening.

For more information, please visit www.warnergrand.org or call Angels Gate Cultural Center at 310.519.0936

Contact:
Angels Gate Cultural Center
3601 South Gaffey Street, San Pedro, California 90731
Phone: 310-519-0936, Fax: 310-519-8698

Office Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 10 am - 5 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 10 am - 5 pm