Bạch Diệp

Bạch Diệp (白葉; 1929–2013), also known as Nguyễn Thanh Tâm (阮清心). was one of North Vietnam's first prominent female film director during the Post-War era of the Vietnam War. Her familial lineage has a strong association with photography and camera work. by several film scholars and was awarded the People's Artist Award in 1997 among several other accomplishments

Early life and education Bạch Diệp was born in 1929 in Hanoi. She and her family had a long history of photography and camera work. Later on in her childhood, she was sent to Saint Dominique Monastery in Haiphong. She was still fascinated with filmmaking despite dealing with cancer. She was invited to make a TV Series for Vietnamese Television. Diep made films for the 7th Dimension Cinema and Sunday Arts.

Style and themes Bạch Diệp was noted to explore the "innermost feelings of characters" in most of her films. The film also depicts Hương as midwife at a hospital and eventually as the adoptive mother to three children whose mother (also women soldiers) went missing or died in the war. Regardless of her political ideology, she remains one of the most documented Vietnamese woman filmmaker. Additionally, she among other East Bloc artists, is recorded in the Soviet Encyclopedia of Cinema. Diệp was awarded the Nghệ Sĩ Nhân Dân (People's Artist Award) in 1997 Diệp won the State Prize for Literature and Art for The Holy Day (1976) & The Legend of a Mother (1987) in 2007 Diệp was established as one of the contemporary film artists celebrated at the 55th anniversary of the Vietnam Film Festival in 2008