Khương Mễ

Biography

Merited Artist Khương Mễ (15th July 1916 - 15th June 2004) was a Vietnamese cinematographer and documentarist. Hailed as “the Lumière of Đồng Tháp Mười”, he is one of the greatest and most influential figures in early Vietnamese cinema as well as the person who laid the foundation for filmmaking in post-war South Vietnam. During the 60s and 70s, he successfully developed a series of low-budget manual film printers, camera gadgets, film projectors along with editing and special effects techniques that allow feature and animated films to be made under the difficult financial condition of war-rid... Show more

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