Vietnamese Film Director

He was a FeatureLab - 360 Participant 2017 (Torino Film Lab, Italy) and at 2017 Cannes L'Atelier (Cannes Film Festival, France).

biography
My starting point in cinema came from the wish to have a hand-held camera to film my petty ideas; however it was impossible for me to buy one due to financial issue. When I was 20 years old, with an old camera I borrowed from a friend, I started my first scenes in my college's old studio. Luckily, that studio was always abandoned at that time.
I grew up in a slumdog in Sai Gon. Neighbors'coming, leaving, sadness and a strange relationship between my parents are strong inspiration for me in both materials and thinking in cinema.
I am not making film to describe the reality in life. I am making film based on my personal feeling about life reality.
In 2013, I made the short film "Cuc than / Coals"
In 2014, I made the short film "Mui / Scene", winning the reward "Golden Heart" for best short film in internation competition in YXINEFF 2014 (Yxine is considered an reputation and important international short film festival in Viet Nam)
"Taste" is my first independent movie. This is a rude look at the sadness and loneliness. The project "Taste" has won the contest Yxine Pitch Fest 2014, by The British Council and Yxine.
"Taste" received a production grant from La Francophonie, in June 2020.

Le Bao is a filmmaker with an incredible story. He was born homeless in the slums of Saigon, fell in love with cinema, and is driven by a desire to create through pure instinct and without judgement or agenda. "Taste" is a film whose subject matter is grounded in a very real and relevant social issue - especially in our current climate - but approached in a way that is utterly distinct, philosophical, and related to the larger question of what it means to be human. Our approach towards exposing the project will be quite careful and curated. "Taste" is a film that will require a delicate touch and patience in order to fulfill its potential. It will be positioned as a visionary niche project from an uncompromising new voice coming out of Southeast Asia. From our time in the Cannes Atelier, we were privileged to have received interest from a number of potential European co-producers and international sales agents. The production budget of "Taste" will not exceed € 450.000. We are confident that with strong understanding partners we will be able to receive funding from sources such as the Hubert Bals Fund, the French CNC, Sørfond, the Open SEA Fund, with the remaining financing coming through private investment.

Source:
www.torinofilmlab.it/people/5763-bao-le
updated by Thierno Dia, on 24 June 2020