from her family's pressure who still valued moral conservatism, Kiều Chinh had to refuse that chance. Within a week, Saigonese press spreaded news very loudly, including portrait photos of "Vietnamese unknown girl rejects Hollywood' well-known director". That's why politician Bùi Diễm invited Kiều Chinh to play the lead role in first project of his studio - Tân Việt Films. Her character was such a buddhist nun that her family agreed. So Chinh began her acting career in South Vietnam, starting with a starring role in The Bells of Thiên Mụ Temple (Hồi Chuông Thiên Mụ) (1957). In her career spanning over sixty years from 1957 to present days, Kiều Chinh received many accolades including an Emmy Award in 1996. Her film roles included Operation C.I.A. (1965) and The Joy Luck Club (1993). She is also a president, co-founder, and co-chair of the Vietnam Children's Fund. In the 1960s, in addition to Vietnamese films, she also appeared in several American productions including A Yank in Viet-Nam (1964) and Operation C.I.A. (1965), the latter opposite Burt Reynolds. Kiều Chinh also produced a war epic Faceless Lover (or Warrior, Who Are You) (1971), which later would be remastered and shown in the U.S. at the 2003 Vietnamese International Film Festival. About 1970, filmmaker Hoàng Vĩnh Lộc said his best friend Kiều Chinh that : "Chinh, we made so nonsense ones that I got too bored. I have just wrote this scenario. Read ! So we now proceed it, allright ?". By Hoàng Vĩnh Lộc's idea, a feature of Faceless Lover what related so much to the military forces, so every Saigonese studios had refused. They feared the system of censorship, not to mention that South Vietnamese contemporary audiences loathed almost of war films. "Let us had better to try doing it !" — said Kiều Chinh. After the deliberation, they decided established immediately a small studio to realize ideas. At that time, one war film was impossible with a condition of Giao Chỉ Films Studio which was privately owned, that is why general director Kiều Chinh asked for help from the Ministry of Information, Ministry of National Defence, and especially the headquarter of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces. So during the summertime 1971, the project started filming. Last year, the film released at Rex Movie Theatre where was the biggest theatre in whole South Vietnam. Afterward it went on attending Asian Film