See the press release below from VAALA.
The film “Oh, Saigon” by director/writer Doan Hoang, also features Ham Tran, director of Journey from the Fall, as an associate producer and one of the cinematographers.
It is showing at 2:30pm today at the Directors Guild of America, 7920 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles , CA 90046.
VAALA & ViFF Co-Present Oh, Saigon
At the 24th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Saturday May 3, 2:30 p.m. @ Directors Guild of America
www.vconline.org & www.vaala.org
Westminster , Calif. – The Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) and Vietnamese International Film Festival (ViFF) will co-present Oh, Saigon, directed by Doan Hoang, at the 24th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival on Saturday, May 3 at 2:30 p.m. Admission for the showcase is $8 (discount rate). To purchase tickets, please visit www.vconline.org and purchase tickets under members of Visual Communications (please write in notes “Co-presenters: VAALA & ViFF”). The screening will be held at the Director’s Guild of America, Theater 2, at 7920 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles , CA 90046 .
Please come support VAALA and ViFF in their efforts to promote the filmmakers of Vietnamese descent and share stories of the Vietnamese experience through the lens of talented filmmakers, screenwriters and actors.
Oh, Saigon is an intimate and complex portrait of a family that demonstrates the consequences of split-second choices made during the last days of the Vietnam War, and the bitter legacy of war that lives on long after the fighting stops. The story is based on Director Hoang’s experiences of war when she and her parents were airlifted by helicopter out of Saigon . Meanwhile, Hoang’s older sister, Van, was left behind without her family in the chaos of Vietnam . Twenty-five years later, Hoang returns to Vietnam to meet the people she left. In order to face their past and resolve the differences that divided the family, Hoang convinces her parents to return to Vietnam .
Doan Hoang (née Hoang Nien Thuc-Doan) is an award-winning producer, director and writer of films, heading her own production company, Nuoc Pictures. She was born in Nha Trang , Vietnam to a South Vietnamese Air Force major from Saigon and a Mekong Delta socialite. Raised in Kentucky , Hoang wrote her first book about the Vietnam War at age nine and made her first documentary film about war at the age of 13. A graduate of Smith College , Hoang spent years as an editor and writer, working for national magazines such as Details, House & Garden, Spin and Saveur.
Oh, Saigon is a seven-year documentary study on her family, funded by the Sundance Institute, Independent Television Service (ITVS), the Center for Asian American Media and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Her work has played in festivals nationally and internationally. Oh, Saigon was recently screened at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and won Best Feature Documentary at the Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival. Some of her other film titles include Agent, Good Morning Captains and A Requiem for Vegetables. She is currently writing a screenplay about perception and producing a new documentary about current-day Vietnam.
