Vietnam Golden Kite Award 2017: “T-fence” won the best documentary film

It tells a story about the impact of climate change and the ecological havoc created by giant dams, deforestation and over-exploitation of natural resources in the Mekong Delta. These factors have contributed to more extreme weather, droughts, heavier rains, floods, coastal erosion, dramatic decline of mangrove forests and much hotter temperatures than ever before.

While the local citizens’ livelihoods have been threatened, the Vietnamese Government and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) implement the Integrated Coastal Management Program (ICMP), financed by the Australian and German Governments, aiming to supporting the Mekong Delta to improve its climate resilience.

One of the most effective low-cost solutions is T-fence that were applied in the provinces of Soc Trang, Bac Lieu and Ca Mau. Made of natural materials like bamboo or melaleuca, T-fence could help to reduce wave strength and encourage sedimentation so that the mangrove forest would be rehabilitated and regenerated.

Besides, the piloting of T-fence by ICMP in many coastal sites in the Mekong Delta witnessed its great advantages such as flexibility, easy maintenance and cost-saving effects.

Also known as one of the annual the prestigious film award of the Vietnam Cinema Association, the Awards honors the country’s best motion pictures, television dramas and documentaries from the previous year./.