Stay Awake, be Ready
Three young men engage in a mysterious conversation on a corner by a street-side stall. Meanwhile a traffic accident involving a motorbike takes place. The night comes together as a sketch, a multicolored frame of reality.
- Vietnam, South Korea, USA
- 2019, 14 min
- Director: Thien An Pham
- Director of photography: Dinh Huy Hung
- Editor: Pham Thien An
- Screenplay: Pham Thien An
- Cast: Le Quoc Bao Vi, Vu Trong Tuyen, Trung Dong Cao, Be Hieu
- Art Director: Huynh Phuong Hien, Nguyen Minh Quyen
- Producer: Pham Thien An, Tran Van Thi
- Production: JKFilm
Thien An Pham
Pham Thien An is a film director, producer and screenwriter born in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam. In recent years, he has won several film awards in Vietnam. In 2015, he moved to Houston, Texas, where he continued working as a freelance filmmaker. His short film The Mute (2018) has been shown at several film festivals (Winterthur, Palm Springs, Uppsala, Encounters). His latest short Stay Awake, Be Ready, was screened in official selection at the 2019 Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. He is currently working on his first feature film, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell.