New Bboy film coming soon!! - Bboy World Com

BboyGreenDragon · 07-07-2010, 05:10 AM

Award-winning director Stephane Gauger’s latest film project takes us to Saigon, where the hip-hop scene is alive and thrumming with energy. The story centers around Mai, a traditional ribbon dancer who forms a strange friendship with Kim, a street dancer that introduces Mai to the underground hip-hop scene in Vietnam. The film Saigon Electric is currently in production and set for a mid-December release in Vietnam, but that’s not putting any stop to releasing a teaser to, well, tease our senses. The production team just started filming last week on May 24 so the teaser’s made up of only one week of shooting.

The director shares his vision on the official Saigon Electric website:

In my wish of telling universal stories with a global outlook and a distinctly Vietnamese point of view, the seeds of “Saigon Electric” were planted. Continuing the themes of my first narrative feature “Owl and the Sparrow”, my hope is to create a visceral landscape of the hustle and bustle in modernized Vietnam. More than half of Vietnam’s current population is under the age of eighteen, born after the American War. As the doors of the West have opened up to the nation and consumerism weaves its way into the value system, youth culture is seeping onto the streets of Vietnam. Hip-hop, graffiti artists, and punk rock are alive. My wish is to give these teenagers a voice and present to an international audience a fresh new look at the dreams and struggles of Asian youth.