Hoang Da Vu
Hoang Da Vu is a lecturer and Deputy Director of the Institute of Theater and Cinema, Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Cinema (HATC), Vietnam. She received her MA (2011), majoring in Theory of Cinema from HATC. She has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience in the fields of Film Criticism, Film Analysis, History of Cinema & Television in the world and in Vietnam. Member of Vietnam Cinema Association and Hanoi Cinema Association.
Audiovisual Education Projects for Groups at Risk of Social Exclusion in Vietnam
According to UNESCO’s Grunwald Declaration on Media Education in 1982, audiovisual education is considered a global educational goal. However, like many other developing countries in the world, Vietnam still has many groups at risk of being excluded from the target of audiovisual education such as people in minorities, children in remote areas, the poor and homeless.
We analyzed three audiovisual projects aimed at vulnerable people in Vietnam. The first is a documentary project about the Hmong people in Sapa, Children of the Mist (directed by Ha Le Diem). The second is the film project My Life, My View, for children in the middle of the Red River. The third is Photovoice, a photography project depicting Hanoi through the perspective of migrant workers.
From the above projects it became clear that the audiovisual education for vulnerable people, at risk of exclusion should be associated with production practices and the creation of audiovisual products like documentaries, photography, etc. It is necessary to have the support of public funds, community organizations and artists in the field of audiovisual to develop audiovisual education projects aimed at vulnerable and affected people, to improve the knowledge and awareness about the audiovisual literacy problem, to increase the confidence, mutual understanding and desire to change the stereotypes about these groups.