Tuesday, December 15, 2020, 10:18 GMT+7
Bui Tuan Dung s Nhung Nguoi Viet Huyen Thoai (The Legend Makers) is seen available on the streaming service Netflix.
The streaming giant Netflix has issued an official announcement following the probe of the Vietnam Cinema Department into the distribution license of two state-funded films on the platform.
Earlier,
Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reported on the questionable release of Vu Dieu Tu Than (The Dance of Death) and Nhung Nguoi Viet Huyen Thoai (The Legend Makers) on Netflix, as the Vietnam Cinema Department, the intellectual property (IP) holder, claimed it had yet to grant the distribution to the foreign streaming site.
Thursday, December 10, 2020, 15:25 GMT+7 Nhung Nguoi Viet Huyen Thoai (The Legend Makers) is seen available on Netflix in this screenshot.
The Vietnam Cinema Department under Vietnam s Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism has launched a probe into the unapproved distribution of state-funded feature films Vu Dieu Tu Than (The Dance of Death) and Nhung Nguoi Viet Huyen Thoai (The Legend Makers) on Netflix.
According to director Bui Tuan Dung, who is the auteur of the two movies, the intellectual property (IP) holder who sold the distribution rights of the two movies to Netflix has not been revealed.
Aware of the issue, Vi Kien Thanh, head of the Vietnam Cinema Department, said the department has requested that the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism launch an investigation into Netflix’s distribution rights of the two movies.