The Oh, Saigon Crew
FIlm credits
STARRING AS THEMSELVES
NAM HOANG
VAN TRAN
ANNE HOANG
HOANG DUC HAI
HOANG T DZUNG
DOAN HOANG
NHAT HOANG
DYLAN LE
DIRECTED, PRODUCED & WRITTEN BY
DOAN HOANG
CO-PRODUCERS
JOHN BATTSEK
DAN GIDDINGS
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
John Battsek
Frank Campbell
Julie Goldman
DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
LARA FRANKENA
TIM FURNISH
HAM TRAN
EDITOR & CO-WRITER
BRET SIGLER
CONSULTING EDITING ADVISOR
MARY LAMPSON
CONSULTING EDITOR
DAVID KLAGSBRUN
ADDITIONAL WRITING
ANYA DAVIS
PATRICK KELLY
LARA FRANKENA
CREDITS & ADDITIONAL EDITING
SEMANE PARSONS
POST PRODUCTION MANAGER
SU KIM
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
SAMI BUCCELLA
MAXWELL ANDERSON
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS
Su Kim
Jessica Ludgrove
Ham Tran
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COMPOSERS
Sami Buccella
Malcom Cross
MUSIC & VOICEOVER PRODUCER
Pablo Martin
SOUND MIX AND DESIGN
CORY MELIOUS
PABLO MARTIN
AUDIO POST PRODUCTION
Maze Studios
Sound Lounge
MUSIC EDITOR
DOAN HOANG
ADDITIONAL CAMERA
CATHERINE HOANG
JESSE FICKS
CIRA FELLINA BOLLA
DOAN HOANG
RICHARD HO
DANIEL SUBKOFF
SUPER 8 CAMERA OPERATOR
DOAN HOANG
HAM TRAN
STILL PHOTOGRAPHY
HOANG GIA LAM
CAROL PETERSEN
LARA FRANKENA
MIMI NGUYEN
HUYNH T. NHA
PHAM THI LOAN
HOANG N SON
ROB HACHE
PRODUCTION MANAGER FOR ITVS
ANNELISE WUNDERLICH
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR FOR ITVS
CHERYL HIRASA
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS
TRAVIS WHISMAN
MIMI NGUYEN
TRAVEL COORDINATOR
TRAVIS WHISMAN
ON-LINE VIDEO EDITORS
STEVE BEGYANI
MIKE NUGET
COLORIST
TIM HEDDEN
ON-LINE COORDINATOR
MATT REEDY
POST FACILITY
POSTWORKS NEW YORK
GRAPHICS & TITLE DESIGN
SIGURD J. VIK - PLASTIKK MEDIA OSLO
ROSTRUM GRAPHICS
FRANK FERRIGNO - FRAME RUNNER
ADDITIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGN
TIM FURNISH
NICK LIVOLSI
PASSION PICTURES
WEBSITE & POSTER DESIGN
NICK LIVOLSI & DOAN HOANG
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NEW YORK MUSICAL SCORE & VOICEOVERS
RECORDED AT
MAZE STUDIOS & VIP STUDIOS, NYC
SCORE & DIRECTION
JUAN P. BUCCELLA
MUSIC PERFORMED BY:
SAMI BUCCELLA (GUITAR, BASS, PIANO, DRUMS)
MAZZ SWIFT (1ST VIOLIN)
DAVID GOTAY (CELLO)
HIROKI TAGUCHI (1ST & 2ND VIOLINS)
STEPHANIE GRIFFIN (VIOLA)
MAX MANDEL (VIOLA)
RECORDING ENGINEERS & MIXERS
PABLO MARTIN
ALLEN TOWBIN
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LA MUSICAL SCORE RECORDINGS
RECORDED AT ZOE’S CRIB, VENICE, CA
Malcolm Cross (Keyboards, Drums, Percussion)
Pierre Martin (Bass)
Tim Walker (Guitars, Pedal Steel)
Harry Scorzo - 1ST Violin
Jennifer Walton - Violin
Alan Mauntner - Cello
RECORDING ENGINEER & MIXER
Darrin Tehrani
ADDITIONAL ENGINEER
JOSEPH KENNEDY
FEATURED SONGS
“Sài Gòn Đep Lam”
Performed by Carol Kim
Written by Y Vân
Remastered by Pablo Martin
Courtesy of the Estate of Y Vân and Carol Kim
”Still Got My Music”
Written & Performed by Morello
Courtesy of Morello
”Hoa Soan Bên Thêm Cu”
Written by Tuân Khan
Performed by Vân Trân
Courtesy of Tuân Khan & Vân Trân
“The Living Beginning”
Written, Performed by Parlour
Courtesy of Parlour
“The Weeds That Grow Into Trees”
Written, Performed by Parlour
Courtesy of Parlour
Photos courtesy of the
Steven L. Austin
Hoang, Huynh Families & Vân Trân
Lara Frankena
Carol Petersen
Archival Footage Courtesy of
National Archives and Records Administration
The National Archives of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
ITN Archives
CBS NEWS
ABC NEWS
Vân Trân
ARCHIVAL RESEARCHERS
LARA FRANKENA
DOAN HOANG
VIETNAM DRIVER
ANH SON
CHU LOC
ACCOUNTANT
DOUG BURACK, LUTZ & CAR LLC
BOOKKEEPING
K. A. TROTTER
DEEPEST THANKS TO INDIVIDUAL DONORS
LESLIE BRENNER
MARIUSZ ONICHIMIUK
GREG CLARK
RAUL & CHRISTINA GOODNESS
NAIDIRA ALEMOVA
JOHN GIBBONS
JEAN LEE & TIM TAY
KATY LEGRIS
BROOKE LEHMAN
JOHN & JUDITH CUMBLER
SPECIAL THANKS TO FRIENDS &
FAMILY FILMED & HOSTED US
CHAU, VAN, DUYET DO
CO CHIN & CO MUOI
CO DUONG UT THAO
GIA DINH DO THIEN CHI
GIA DINH HAI BAC HAI
GIA DINH CHU THIM DUNG
HOANG ANH TUAN
HOANG LAM VA HUONG
HOANG MAI PHUONG
HOANG SON VA HANH
VI HOANG JENSEN
HUYNH THIEN NHA
THE HO FAMILY
GIA DINH HUYNH
GIA DINH HUYNH VAN
DI DUONG UT HUYNH NGA
DI ANH HUYNH & NORI SAN
SPECIAL THANKS (CONTINUED)
HUYNH BÍCH
LIZ HUYNH
DI DUONG UT HUYNH MAI
The Kornasiewicz-Ditchik Family
SAGE LEHMAN & CHRIS RONIS
WENDY LEHMAN
MIMI, LISA, DUONG 10 DAU NGUYEN
DIEP TRAN & TONY PHAM
GIA DINH TRAN
MA HUE TRAN
GIA DINH TRAN TE DUONG
LAN VO & MINA VOGEL
GIA DINH VO
MANY THANKS
Keith Allison
Dr. Lisa Airan
AIVF
Cage Ames
David Ansen
Anne Bakoulis
The Beeps
Jasmine Ben-Reuven
Charu Benegal
Uday Benegal
Amy Braunschweiger
The Campbells
Alicia Carr & Ian Troxell
Carola Chataway
Anna Chin
Kathy Chu
Charlotte Cerf
Chris Clements
Janet Cole
The Colton Family of Brooklyn
Jon Cook
Todd Dayton
Anya and Kenny Davis
Paul G. Day
Ruta Delpane
Digital FX
My Le Ducharme
Curt Ellis
Eve Ensler
Kristin Feeley
Simon Furnish
Noel Gallagher & Oasis
John & Katy Gibbons
Gail Golgin
Paul Graziano
Susan Hammond
Jules Hartzell
J. Malia Hawley
Anne Hemenway
Tony Hinds
Eli Hoffman & Eisner Co.
Daniel Horowitz
Irene Huang & Will Skinner
Tyler Hubby
Shannon Kelley
Sue Kershbaumer
Abhi Kothari
Senain Kheshgi
Carol Kim
David and Julia Neaman Klagsbrun
Peter Kleinmann
Wolf Leayr
Ron Lembo
Gerald S. Levy at UCLA Medical
Andrew Liebhafsky, Esq.
Jeffrey Lloyd Lewis
Dr. Glenys Lobban
Melody London
Holly Lynton
Shafer Mahoney
Rina Mansukhani
Hortencia Martinez
Tony Martinez
David Mehlman
Ron Montgomery
John McAuliff
The Naylors
Doug Niven & National Geographic’s Another Vietnam
Geoffrey O’Connor
Geeta Patel
David Poole
Ethan Prochnik
Kave & Aidan Quinn
Carol Robinson
Justin Schein, Shadowbox Films
Sapana Sakya
Mitsuko Sawada
Mansoor Sheikh
Chris Sicat
Joan Stein Schimcke
Zena Sfeir
Rachel Sloan
Alan & Rosy Stewart
Raksha Sukhia
TGIFriday’s in Tom’s River, NJ
Thanh Tung
Trung Hanh
VDay Women
Vietnam Relief Effort
Marty Vowels
Dr. James P. Watson
Trey Whisman
Aaron Woolf
Donald Young
Amanda Zinoman
Our Friends, Family & Kind Strangers
FISCAL SPONSOR
The Fund for Reconciliation & Development
This film was supported by a grant from the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund.
Executive Producer for ITVS
Sally Jo Fifer
OH, SAIGON is a co-production of Nuoc Pictures, LLC and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), in association with Passion Pictures, Cactus Three, and the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), with funding provided by the corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
OH, Saigon is produced by nuoc pictures, llc which is solely responsible for its content.
© 2006 nuoc pictures, llc - All Rights Reserved
Music rights from the film belong to the composers credited.
Đoan Hoàng
Director/Writer/Producer
Đoan Hoàng (née Hoàng Niên Thuc- Đoan) is a award-winning producer, director, and writer of films and oral historian, heading her own Los Angeles production company, Nuoc Productions.
Hoang was born in the Republic of South Vietnam to a South Vietnamese Air Force major from Saigon and a Mekong Delta socialite. Raised in Kentucky, Hoang wrote her first book about the Vietnam War at age 9; wrote, directed, co-produced and appeared in her first war documentary at the age of 12; and began her first oral family history work at age 13. After graduating Smith College, Hoang spent years as a New York City editor and writer, working for companies such as Conde Nast, Time Inc., American Express Publishing and national magazines such as Details, House & Garden, Spin, Travel & Leisure, and Saveur as she continued her oral history work that became a documentary when she met cinematographer Ham Tran (director of Maika, Journey from the Fall) and artist Chris Sicat who were touring with the Vietnamese-American comedy troupe, Club o’ Noodles.
Oh, Saigon was a seven-year project funded by (in order of involvement), the Sundance Institute, ITVS, the Center for Asian American Media, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Non-Fiction Feature Film at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and the Best Feature Documentary & Best Brooklyn Film at the 42nd Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival. The film has been internationally screened and televised in major cities in multiple countries and 5 continents, translated into seven languages, and in the US, had 7 national airings on PBS, cable, video on demand, streamed on Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Roku, TubiTV and IMDB-TV. Oh, Saigon can currently be viewed on YouTube and SBS Australia (from June 4, 2021 to April 30, 2022).
Hoang toured both Spain and Vietnam with Oh, Saigon as a featured artist for the US Department of State. Hoang has been interviewed on BBC Radio alongside Yoko Ono, on NPR’s New America Now with author Andrew Lam interviewing, on EITB in Spain,and many others. Her work has appeared in exhibition at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art and Minneapolis’s Weisman Art Museum. Oh, Saigon is taught in college and university courses internationally, a staple in many film, Asian American studies and social work courses, including Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen’s USC course on American literature and film, Vietnam War scholar, Marilyn B. Young’s NYU course on America’s wars, and Mare Diaz’s Quinnipiac University course on truth and journalism and is the subject of academic and psychology papers.
Some of Hoàng’s other directing and producing credits include Agent, American Geisha, Good Morning Captains, Hard Times, Nuoc, On the Trail of Ho & A Requiem. She has directed music videos and commercials, consulted on numerous documentaries, including Oscar-nominated If A Tree Falls (Marshall Curry & Sam Cullman), Geeta Patel & Senain Kesingi’s Project Kashmir, Legacy of Denial by Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul & Mary), and Adele Pham & Adele Ray’s Nailed It.
Hoàng is currently making a follow-up to Oh, Saigon, called Oh America: Divided Country, about the second generation split in her family, when after the passing of their father, her brother becomes radicalized and QAnon-obsessed, culminating in his marching on the US Capitol on January 6. Hoàng has been working on an oral history project around the Fall of Saigon involving both Vietnamese and American survivors, including the veterans who rescued her family in the last airlift.
Doan Hoang’s Curriculum Vitae
Please note that currently, only Doan Hoang & Nuoc Pictures/Nuoc Productions, own any and all rights to publicly screen, lease, sell or license Oh, Saigon, the documentary film. (Some institutions such as universities and colleges are license to show the film for free classes under 50 and for their library borrowing but do not have additional public screenings rights.
* Note: ONLY Juan Buccella (no quiero) and Bret Sigler have received permission
to show previews of OH, SAIGON on YouTube.)All other screenings, digital displays on any platform, ads made from, leasing,
selling, or licensing, please contact Nuoc Productions for permissions at info(@)ohsaigon.com.
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