KQED Education Network & Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley present
BOLINAO 52: A Vietnamese Boat People Documentary
Screening & Discussion
Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 7pm
Sibley Auditorium (Bechtel Engineering Center)
University of California, Berkeley
One boat with 110 passengers escaped from Vietnam.
After 37 days of drifting, only 52 survived.
This is their story.
KQED Education Network and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UC
Berkeley present a screening and discussion of BOLINAO 52, a Vietnamese
boat people documentary on Thursday, May 1, at 7:00 pm in Sibley
Auditorium (Bechtel Engineering Center) on the UC Berkeley campus. This
free screening will feature a discussion with the filmmaker Duc Nguyen.
Following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, hundreds of thousands
refugees took the perilous escape route across South China Sea to find
freedom. Many died of drowning or starvation and thirst. Others were
lost at sea, or robbed and killed by pirates. More than 30 years later,
no major film or television program has told their stories. Bolinao 52
presents this long-silenced voice, an unspoken legacy of the Vietnam
War. Filmmaker Duc Nguyen, also a boat refugee, retraces the odyssey of
Bolinao 52 – a vessel adrift on the sea for 37 days—and a survivor Tung
Trinh as she returns to her past to tell her story.
BOLINAO 52 is a co-production of Duc Nguyen and the Independent
Television Service (ITVS), produced in association with the Center for
Asian American Media (CAAM) and KTEH Public Television with funding
provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Additional
funding was provided by All Roads Film Project and Pacific Pioneer
Fund.
The World Television Premiere of Bolinao 52: April 30, 2008 at 9pm,
KTEH Public Television 54 (Comcast 10) & repeated on May 4, 2008 at 2pm
on KQED Public Television 9.
For a campus map and directions visit
http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/AB45.html
For more information e-mail CommunityEngagement@kqed.org
Duc Nguyen
Director/Producer
BOLINAO 52: A Vietnamese Boat People Documentary
www.bolinao52.com
duc@rhimp.com
