The Global Film Initiative featured Vietnamese director Bui Thac Chuyen's film "Adrift" ("Choi voi") at downtown Letelier Theater on the night of March 12.

’Adrift’ is one of the ten award-winning narrative feature films selected for screening during the Global Lens Film Series.

The film was granted the FIPRESCI, an award of the Venice International Film Festival and it is Bui Thac Chuyen's second feature film with the first being "Living in Fear" which was awarded the Asian New Talent Prize for Best Film at the 2006 Shanghai International Film Festival.

Also during the Global Lens Film Series period, ‘Adrift’ was shown to the public in New York in mid-January, beginning a yearlong tour of over 35 cities across the US and Canada.

Earlier, the film won Bronze Taiga award at the Spirit of Fire film festival in Russia.

The Global Film Initiative is a US-based non-profit organization founded with the mission of promoting cross-cultural understanding through the universal language of cinema by acquiring, distributing and supporting independent films from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

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