Directed by Doan Hoang • 2007 • United States
Starring Nam Hoang, Van Tran, Anne Hoang
Doan Hoang’s family was airlifted out of Vietnam on April 30, 1975, on the last civilian helicopter to leave the country at the end of the Vietnam War. Years later, she sets out to uncover their story. Her father, a former South Vietnamese major, confronts his political differences with his brothers, whom he never mentioned to his children. Meanwhile, Hoang tries to reconcile her own survivor’s guilt with the experience of her half-sister, who was mistakenly separated from the family during the escape. One of the rare Vietnam War documentary films made by a Vietnamese-born director, OH, SAIGON gives a Vietnamese perspective of the war and its end.
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When I Walk
Directed by Jason DaSilva • 2013 • United States
Starring Alice Cook, Jason DaSilvaFacing a life-altering multiple-sclerosis diagnosis at age twenty-five, filmmaker Jason DaSilva picked up a camera, turned it on his declining body, and set out on a worldwide journey in search of healing, self-d...
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Twinsters
Directed by Samantha Futerman and Ryan Miyamoto • 2015 • United Kingdom
Starring Anaïs Bordier, Samantha Futerman, Kanoa GooIn February 2013, Anaïs Bordier, a French fashion student living in London, stumbled upon a YouTube video featuring Samantha Futerman, an actress in Los Angeles, and was s...
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95 and 6 to Go
Directed by Kimi Takesue • 2016 • United States
Filmmaker Kimi Takesue finds an unlikely collaborator while visiting her grandfather Tom in Hawai’i. A recent widower in his nineties, Tom seems content to go about his daily routines until he shows surprising interest in his granddaughter’s stalle...
