"If I could put my finger on the moment my family fell apart, it would be April 30, 1975, the end
of the Vietnam War."
– Đoan Hoàng, voiceover of director
in Oh, Saigon
Awards, Prizes & Distinctions
United States Department of State: American Documentary Showcase: Featured American Artist Ambassador: Nationwide tours of Spain & Vietnam (2010/2011/2012)
Asian Women’s Giving Circle and Ms. Foundation Grant - Recipient (2011)
GRAND JURY PRIZE - Best Non-Fiction Feature - Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (2008)
Best Film of Brooklyn at the 42nd Brooklyn International Film Festival (2008)
Best Feature Documentary at the 42nd Brooklyn International Film Festival (2008)
Center for Asian American Media’s Media Fund Award - Recipient (2006) and Documentary Fund Recipient (2021)
Independent Television Service's prestigious Open Call Award - Recipient (2005)
Sundance Institute's Documentary Fund Award - Grant Recipient
(Ford Foundation/Open Society Institute, 2005)
Best of the Fest – Austin Film Festival, 2008
Best Documentary Nominee - San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (2007)
Best Documentary Nominee – Vietnam International Film Festival, April 2009
FILM FESTIVALS
OFFICIAL SELECTION OF:
Austin Film Festival (2007) - appearance with Oliver Stone
Austin Film Festival Documentary Series (2008) - Best of
Barcelona Asian Film Festival (2009)
Berlin Asian Film Festival (2008)
The Big Read Festival, Hiram, Ohio & Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival (2008)
Chicago Asian American Showcase
Five Flavours Asian Film Festival, - Warsaw, POLAND (2008)
Houston Asian American Pacific Islander Film Festival
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (Grand Jury Prize) (2008)
Oslo Melafestivalen, Oslo, Norway - Festival Opener
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival (2010)
Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá - COLUMBIA (2014)
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Documentary Fortnight Exhibition (2009)
Philadelphia Asian Film Festival, 2015 - nominee
Raindance Film Festival - LONDON, ENGLAND (2007)
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival -USA - nominee
San Diego Asian Film Festival Spring Showcase, 2015
https://pacarts.org/blog/2015-sdaff-spring-showcase-makes-another-splash/
San Diego Asian Film Festival (2008)
Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid Film Festival - SPAIN (2011)
Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival - CANADA
Warsaw Vietnamese International Film Festival - POLAND
Warsaw Vietnamese International Film Festival - POLAND (2008)
Vietnamese International Film Festival - Best Documentary, nominee
Visions du Reél International Film Festival, Nyon - FRANCE
Zimbabwe International Film Festival (2014)
STREAMING PLATFORMS
YouTube - current
Amazon (2012-2018)
Netflix (2012-2014)
Hulu (2012-2018)
Roku (2012-2018)
TubiTV/IMDB-TV (2018)
Television Broadcasters
SBS Australia (2021-2024)PBS - PUBLIC TELEVISION - USA 2008 -2012
CBC - CANADIAN BROADCASTING
EiTB, Spain
HTV4, Vietnam
YES TELEVISION, Israel
UR SWEDISH PUBLIC TELEVISION, Sweden, Denmark
RADIO
BBC World Service: Cultural Frontline: Art of the Vietnam War
or as Podcast 2021
National Public Radio - NPR - “New America Now”
Bilbao Public Radio International
WNYC
The Frame
The Subversity Show, 2011
SELECT INSTITUTIONS SCREENED BY STATE AND COUNTRY
NEW YORK
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) - “Truly strong, human and brave.” Documentary Fortnight Exhibition 2008
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn Museum
Columbia University
Irish Center for the Arts
Long Island College
The New School
New York University
The Open Center
Vassar College
Tisch School for the Arts
CALIFORNIA
Director’s Guild - Los Angeles
Oakland Asian Cultural Center - Oakland
Opera Plaza Theater - San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA)
The Steinbeck Institute
USC Pacific Asia Museum
University of California - Los Angeles
University of Southern California - Los Angeles
University of California-Berkeley
University of California-Irvine
University of California-San Diego
WASHINGTON, DC
The US Department of State
American University
Georgetown University
OTHER STATES
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Gene Siskel Film Center, CHICAGO
Hallmark Headquarters - Kansas City, MO
Harvard University - CAMBRIDGE
Louisville Free Public Library
Quinnipiac University
Smith College - NORTHAMPTON, MA
University of Florida
University of Maryland
Weisman Museum, Exhibition: Changing Identity: Recent Works by Women Artists from Vietnam, Minneapolis, MN (2009)
Yale University - NEW HAVEN, CT
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
IRELAND
SPAIN
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, BARCELONA
Cineteca del Matadero, MADRID
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Universidad of Bilbao, Bilbao
Universidad del Deusto, Bilbao
Universidad de Sevilla, Seville
VIETNAM
Hanoi Cinemateque, Hanoi
United Nations conference, Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City
United States Embassy, Hanoi
United States Consulate, Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City
SINGAPORE
Tisch School for the Arts Asia
United Kingdom
The Frontline Club, London, England
London Trocadero, London, England