These contemporary stories tackle fraught family relationships, creating new livelihoods, collective memory and many other moments that shape Vietnamese American lives. No Crying at the Dinner Table meditatively breaks open family tensions in order to resolve them. Zooming out from individual to community heartbreak and healing, The Morning Passing on el Cajon Boulevard acknowledges the experience of losing loved ones from far away. Following two short films on the process of making a living in a new place, Upon Skin, Upon Stone rounds out the program by inviting the audience to look ahead to future possibilities.
Co-presented by Kandelia (formerly Vietnamese Friendship Association) and Northwest Vietnamese News
Julie is a young and ambitious second generation Vietnamese American funeral director working in City Heights, known as the refugee neighborhood of San Diego, California. She is used to managing funerals every week, but after the unexpected passing of her own father, she seeks help from Đồ Thái Uyên, a San Diego legend who has managed funerals (and taxes) for Asian families since the 1980s. THE MORNING PASSING ON EL CAJON BOULEVARD is a brief and intimate glimpse into the ways refugee families mourn the loss of loved ones far from their homelands. (Content Warning: Death)
- Year2019
- Runtime19 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Vietnamese
- CountryUnited States
- PremierePNW Premiere
- NoteEnglish open Captions and Vietnamese open Captions
- DirectorQuyên Nguyen-Le
These contemporary stories tackle fraught family relationships, creating new livelihoods, collective memory and many other moments that shape Vietnamese American lives. No Crying at the Dinner Table meditatively breaks open family tensions in order to resolve them. Zooming out from individual to community heartbreak and healing, The Morning Passing on el Cajon Boulevard acknowledges the experience of losing loved ones from far away. Following two short films on the process of making a living in a new place, Upon Skin, Upon Stone rounds out the program by inviting the audience to look ahead to future possibilities.
Co-presented by Kandelia (formerly Vietnamese Friendship Association) and Northwest Vietnamese News
Julie is a young and ambitious second generation Vietnamese American funeral director working in City Heights, known as the refugee neighborhood of San Diego, California. She is used to managing funerals every week, but after the unexpected passing of her own father, she seeks help from Đồ Thái Uyên, a San Diego legend who has managed funerals (and taxes) for Asian families since the 1980s. THE MORNING PASSING ON EL CAJON BOULEVARD is a brief and intimate glimpse into the ways refugee families mourn the loss of loved ones far from their homelands. (Content Warning: Death)
- Year2019
- Runtime19 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Vietnamese
- CountryUnited States
- PremierePNW Premiere
- NoteEnglish open Captions and Vietnamese open Captions
- DirectorQuyên Nguyen-Le