Organizer: Asian CineVision (ACV)
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
Description:
Join Asian CineVision for the NYC premiere of the Southeast Asian American Journeys documentary series featuring different refugee communities across the United States. This film is part of an in-person shorts-feature combination screening and will be preceded by the short film, Sea Song.
About the Film:
Presented with five chapters, Southeast Asian American Journeys follows different refugee communities across the US: The Market is the journey to the Southeast Asian Market in south Philadelphia’s FDR Park. Threads paints a sprawling portrait of indigenous Montagnard refugee community in North Carolina, threading intergenerational history-making. Teb Chaw (Land) is an immersive vignette of Hmong farmers transforming local foodways in a diversified Minnesota. Muoz-Doic Mixtape is an offering of intergenerational storytelling from the Mien community of Portland, Oregon. Between Us follows the multilayered stories of queer Cambodian and Vietnamese cultural workers in southern California.
Episode Descriptions:
THE MARKET | DIRECTED BY OANH-NHI NGUYEN
The journey to the Southeast Asian Market in south Philadelphia’s FDR Park, founded by refugees who carved out their own space of nourishment and belonging. Runtime: 12 minutes
THREADS | DIRECTED BY QUYÊN NGUYEN-LE
A sprawling portrait of indigenous Montagnard refugee community in North Carolina, threading intergenerational storytelling and history-making in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Runtime: 16 minutes
TEB CHAW (LAND) | DIRECTED BY JOUA LEE GRANDE
Teb Chaw (Land) is an immersive portrait of Hmong refugee farmers transforming local foodways in a diversified Minnesota–home to one of the largest populations of the Hmong diaspora built in the aftermath of the Secret War in Laos. Runtime: 11 minutes
MUOZ-DOIC MIXTAPE | DIRECTED BY QUYÊN NGUYEN-LE
Muoz-doic Mixtape (pronounced: moo-ah thoy) is an offering of intergenerational storytelling from the Mien community of Portland, Oregon: a brief glimpse into the collective work of culture-keeping in the face of historical displacement. Runtime: 14 minutes
BETWEEN US | DIRECTED BY QUYÊN NGUYEN-LE
Between Us follows the multilayered stories of LGBTQIA+ Khmer and Vietnamese cultural workers in southern California as they contemplate the in-betweenness of belonging, healing, and carving out spaces of their own. Runtime: 16 minutes
About the Filmmakers:
Quyên Nguyen-Le’s film work – spanning between documentary, video installation, and scripted genres – focuses on the ways histories are deeply felt in the quotidian everyday.
Joua Lee Grande is a filmmaker and community educator with a deep commitment to elevating underheard voices. Her short film ON ALL FRONTS was the opening episode for a series that won a Silver Anthem Award and received a Daytime Emmy nomination in 2023.
Oanh-Nhi Nguyen is an award-winning filmmaker whose decade-long commitment to gender and racial justice drives her storytelling. An AFI Conservatory MFA graduate, Oanh-Nhi has directed ten narrative shorts and documentary episodes that have reached audiences from the Smithsonian American Art Museum to festival circuits nationwide.
Producer: Quyên Nguyen-Le
Registration:
To attend the screening, please purchase tickets here.
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