Organizer: The Asian American Education Project
Type/Location: In Person / New York, NY
Description:
The Asian American Education Project (AAEdu) is hosting a series of FREE K-12 educator events throughout Fall 2026 to deepen knowledge of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) and cross-racial histories and experiences!
At this event, participants will engage in a screening of Southeast Asian American Journeys, an anthology featuring intergenerational stories of local Southeast Asian American refugee communities in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Minnesota, Oregon, and California. These communities, shaped by their resettlement journeys, have transformed the landscape of which they are a fundamental part. Following the screening, participants will have a Q&A with filmmaker Quyên Nguyen-Le, and some planning time.
Attendees may be educators teaching in New York City schools, nonprofit/youth workers, and community members. Educators are eligible to receive CTLE credit.
NYC AAPI Studies K-12 provides free curricular resources and professional development to support integration of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) history, identity, and civic belonging in NYC Public Schools.
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 Filmmaker:
Quyên Nguyen-Le is a Daytime Emmy nominated queer vietnamese filmmaker born to boat refugee parents where Chumash and Kizh lands meet in Los Ángeles, California. Now based in the Twin Cities, Minnesota (Dakota and Anishinaabe land). Quyên's film work – spanning between documentary, video installation, and scripted genres – focuses on the ways histories are deeply felt in the quotidian everyday. Their films have been on international screens big and small in Vietnam, Japan, Senegal, Cambodia, France, Germany, Australia, Canada, the U.K. and U.S.
Quyên’s early works delve into the intersections of queer vietnamese american political identity - experimental explorations of the fragmented multilingual act of generational storytelling–and the psychic toll of its absence. Committed to the spirit of documentary films merging out of third world social justice movements, Quyên's work in this genre transformed their artistic practice into one deeply rooted in the ethics of making films within community.
Previously supported by Kartemquin Films, Points North Institute, Center for Asian American Media, and the California Arts Council. Alumnus of the National Multicultural Alliance's Producer Lab, Visual Communications’ AWC program, and InnerCity Filmmakers.
Quyên holds an M.A. in Visual Studies and B.A. in Comparative Literature / Philosophy, Politics, & Law.
Registration:
To attend the screening, please register here.