Victor Vu is a controversial Vietnamese-American film director, writer and producer who won awards while also embroiled in plagiarism controversies.
Along with critical acclaims, news media and public opinion have also accused Vu of plagiarism.
In Vietnam's landmark first official plagiarism investigation, Vietnamese regulators found Vu's film Inferno to have copied Hollywood's 1991 film Shattered.
This resulted in Inferno's disqualification from Vietnam's Golden Kite Awards.
Vu called a press conference to try misinform Vietnamese public that in Hollywood, such identical similarities are the obligatory result of using Hollywood filmmaking method.