“This was a time when there weren’t iPhones or anything that kept me entertained, so I would sketch all day on the back of these invoices. I would have piles and piles of papers and these pens. Come to think of it now, these were like storyboards. In a way, because my parents made me work at their small business, I had to daydream, and it fueled my imagination.”
The series is inspired by Jeff Chang’s essays in his acclaimed book We Gon’ Be Alright, asking: why and how did we become so divided and what can we do now to be alright?
New programs added include “We Gon’ Be Alright,” “The Sun is Also A Star,” a panel at OMCA with Tina Takemoto, and more.
Help us support and bring to light the compelling and authentic stories and voices of Asian American filmmakers and storytellers like filmmaker Bao Nguyen by donating $35 or more to CAAM’s crowdfunding campaign Connecting Community One Story at a Time at www.CAAMedia.org/OneStory by December 31st.
Four decades after the end of the Vietnam War, some of the children of refugees have returned to Vietnam in order to pursue their passions in an emerging entertainment industry. A series by Bao Nguyen.
The director of “Live from New York!” talks about filmmaking and his newest webseries, “Employed Identity,” coming soon to PBS.org.
