Daughter from Danang
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| Daughter from Danang | |
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| Directed by | Gail Dolgin Vicente Franco |
| Produced by | Gail Dolgin |
| Cinematography | Vincente Franco |
| Editing by | Kim Roberts |
| Distributed by | PBS Home Video (US DVD) |
| Release date(s) | 11 January 2002 (premiere at Sundance) 1 November 2002 (NYC) |
| Running time | 83 mins |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English and Vietnamese |
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Daughter from Danang is a 2002 documentary film about Heidi Bub (a.k.a. Mai Thi Hiep), one of the children brought to the United States from Vietnam in 1975 during "Operation Babylift" at the end of the Vietnam War. Heidi is a married woman with children in Tennessee, but she travels to Vietnam in the hope of being reunited with her Vietnamese mother, Mai Thi Kim.
The film won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.
| Preceded by Southern Comfort |
Sundance Grand Jury Prize: Documentary 2002 |
Succeeded by The Corporation |
