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
Q&A moderated by Michelle Pham with Anthony Newen (director, Farming Slowly), Melanie Dang Ho (director, sống ở đây), and Quyên Nguyen-Le (director, The Morning Passing on El Cajón Boulevard).
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
Q&A moderated by Michelle Pham with Anthony Newen (director, Farming Slowly), Melanie Dang Ho (director, sống ở đây), and Quyên Nguyen-Le (director, The Morning Passing on El Cajón Boulevard).