Real Work. Real Lives. Real Sound. Real Vietnam.
We’re a small independent filmmaking team. We love spending time with people at work and staying long enough to understand what they really do.
From fishermen and farmers to street vendors, craftspeople, family-run shops, and small local businesses, we film working life as it happens. No narration. No background music. No staged scenes.
Just real people, real work, real places, and the natural sound around them.
Some films follow one person through part of a working day. Others stay with a process from raw materials to the finished result. In every film, the focus is the same: the people, their skills, routines, tools, relationships, and the quiet details of everyday work in Vietnam.
Only Real is our record of working life as we find it — unstaged, observed closely, and real.
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In Vietnam, people call it bánh bò bông, which means soft and airy like cotton. It’s a sweet street snack made from rice flour and coconut water, loved by locals in Saigon for generations. These jiggly cakes are usually sold by elderly street vendors.
Watch the full video here and see how this old street vendor serves 3 types of bánh bò in Saigon: https://youtu.be/BMsTsTkVcdw?si=A9ta0...
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When traveling in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, you will easily come across street vendors selling this dish. It is a sweet and smooth dish.
Watch the video to learn more about how they sell and enjoy this dish: https://youtu.be/8bakn-o6VTY?si=v1kAE...
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Curious about how everyday people in Vietnam enjoy their breakfast and coffee?
Watch this video to find out: https://youtu.be/qARb-hI-vs8?si=sVepF...
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Discover the life of this farmer in the latest video on the Only Real youtube channel. He makes a living by picking coconuts. He climbs and picks coconuts in the traditional Vietnamese way.
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/Mke8f20xrc4?si=DLJlb...
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