Oh, Saigon
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| Oh, Saigon | |
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| Directed by | Doan Hoang |
| Produced by | Doan Hoang Executive Producers: |
| Written by | Doan Hoang Bret Sigler |
| Starring | Nam Hoang Anne Hoang Van Tran Doan Hoang Hoàng Duc Hoang Dzung Nhat Hoang Dylan Le |
| Music by | Juan P. Buccella Malcolm Cross |
| Cinematography | Ham Tran Lara Frankena Tim Furnish Doan Hoang |
| Editing by | Bret Sigler |
| Release date(s) | 2007 |
| Running time | 57 mins |
| Country | US, UK, Vietnam |
| Language | English, Vietnamese |
| [www.ohsaigon.com Official website] | |
Oh, Saigon is a 2007 personal documentary by Vietnamese American director Doan Hoang about her family that is separated during the Fall of Saigon and her attempt to reunite her family after years of separation. Oh, Saigon was executive produced by Academy Award and Emmy winner, John Battsek. Oh, Saigon won prestigious film grants from the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, ITVS, the Center for Asian American Media, and the Fund for Reconciliation and Development.
One line synopsis: The last family helicoptered out of Saigon on the last day of the Vietnam War attempts to resolve its divided past.
Three line synopsis: Airlifted out of Vietnam on April 30, 1975, Doan Hoang’s family was on the last civilian helicopter out of the country at the end of the war. Twenty-five years later, she sets out to uncover their story. The film follows her family as they return to Vietnam after decades of exile, where her father, a former South Vietnamese major, meets his brothers again to confront their political differences: one was a Communist, the other a pacifist. Meanwhile, Hoang tries to reconcile her own difficult past with her half sister, who was mistakenly separated from the family during the escape.
[edit] Releases and showing dates
- 2008 Winner of Grand Jury Prize at its Los Angeles premiere May 3, 2008 at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
- 2008 Best Feature Documentary & Best Brooklyn Film at the 42nd Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival, and had its Brooklyn premiere at the Brooklyn Museum, Friday, May 9.
- New York City premiere at the MoMA - Museum of Modern Art's Documentary Exhibition Fortnight on February 16, 2008 to a sold-out, standing room audience.
- World premiere at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival in March 2007.
- Oh, Saigon played in April and May of 2007 in Barcelona, Spain at the Barcelona Asian Film Festival
- Raindance Film Festival in London in October 2007.
- Austin Film Festival in Austin, Texas in October 2007 and returned as an Austin Festival favorite to kick off the Austin Film Festival Documentary Series on Feb. 6, 2008.
- Aired on PBS nationwide in the USA in 2008.
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