Published:  00:00 Thursday - October 01, 2009

Quan Lelan, a Vietnamese American film director, has bagged the Culumbine Award for the best film script for his screenplay “The Princess Concubine” at the 2009 Moondance International Film Festival.

At the festival, in the US state of Colorado on Sept. 28, Lelan took the prize for the best foreign writer, filmmaker or composer who submitted projects from overseas.

Earlier, “The Princess Concubine” beat 4,300 other film scripts to reach to the final round of the Page International Screenwriting Awards. The winners will be announced in early October.