STEP 1: To watch this screening, click the Register button above to "Pre-order" the film.
STEP 2: The first time you register for a screening with Viet Film Fest on EVENTIVE, you will be asked to create an account. Accounts are free, and you will be asked to provide your first and last name, your email, and to create a password. If you’ve previously attended a film on EVENTIVE, you may not need to log in – the system will remember you when you click “Register”.
STEP 3: After logging in, continue to click "Pre-order" until you receive a message that you have successfully "pre-ordered" the movie.
STEP 4: Once you have pre-ordered (registered) successfully, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions and a link to access the film. You will also get reminder emails on the day of the screening, at noon and then 10 minutes before the movie starts. The unlock window starts at the time the screening becomes available and you will have 7 days to unlock the screening. Once unlocked, you will have 3 days to watch this film before it expires.
Food serves as sustenance, and it can serve as a way to connect with one another. In Bloodline, family origins, recipes, cooking traditions, and homeland are honored. While in Savory and Nostalgia, food has the ability to bring back dear memories of loved ones. sống ở đây (to live here) explores cultivating food on land and water. Find connection and welcome through food and flavor while traveling in Quan 13 of Paris, France.
Vietnamese Culture and Science Association (VCSA) is a proud Community Partner for Cravings for Connection.
Melanie Dang Ho's short film, sống ở đây (to live here), is a vivid illustration of the peaceful lives of Vietnamese-American fisherman and elderly farmers in New Orleans, Louisiana. The film reveals their past stories as refugees due to the Vietnam War by interweaving their personal accounts about their flight to the United States and their backbreaking daily labor in the present day – all in hopes to carve out a better, more stable life amid the cultural differences between their original and new homeland.
Sống ở đây showcases Melanie Dang Ho's interest in the Vietnamese-American diaspora and the trauma they carry with them. Just beneath the surface of the dialogue-free moments showing these fishermen and farmers at work, there exists a tension between the ideal of the American Dream and the grueling blue-collar labor exhibited on-screen. Ho’s aesthetic juxtapositions give her film a tranquil, observational atmosphere fitting into the cinéma vérité tradition. Sống ở đây was Ho’s MFA thesis film at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) and was nominated by the International Documentary Association for a Best Short award.
- Year2020
- Runtime21 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Vietnamese
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorMelanie Dang Ho
- CinematographerMelanie Dang Ho
- EditorMelanie Dang Ho
STEP 1: To watch this screening, click the Register button above to "Pre-order" the film.
STEP 2: The first time you register for a screening with Viet Film Fest on EVENTIVE, you will be asked to create an account. Accounts are free, and you will be asked to provide your first and last name, your email, and to create a password. If you’ve previously attended a film on EVENTIVE, you may not need to log in – the system will remember you when you click “Register”.
STEP 3: After logging in, continue to click "Pre-order" until you receive a message that you have successfully "pre-ordered" the movie.
STEP 4: Once you have pre-ordered (registered) successfully, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions and a link to access the film. You will also get reminder emails on the day of the screening, at noon and then 10 minutes before the movie starts. The unlock window starts at the time the screening becomes available and you will have 7 days to unlock the screening. Once unlocked, you will have 3 days to watch this film before it expires.
Food serves as sustenance, and it can serve as a way to connect with one another. In Bloodline, family origins, recipes, cooking traditions, and homeland are honored. While in Savory and Nostalgia, food has the ability to bring back dear memories of loved ones. sống ở đây (to live here) explores cultivating food on land and water. Find connection and welcome through food and flavor while traveling in Quan 13 of Paris, France.
Vietnamese Culture and Science Association (VCSA) is a proud Community Partner for Cravings for Connection.
Melanie Dang Ho's short film, sống ở đây (to live here), is a vivid illustration of the peaceful lives of Vietnamese-American fisherman and elderly farmers in New Orleans, Louisiana. The film reveals their past stories as refugees due to the Vietnam War by interweaving their personal accounts about their flight to the United States and their backbreaking daily labor in the present day – all in hopes to carve out a better, more stable life amid the cultural differences between their original and new homeland.
Sống ở đây showcases Melanie Dang Ho's interest in the Vietnamese-American diaspora and the trauma they carry with them. Just beneath the surface of the dialogue-free moments showing these fishermen and farmers at work, there exists a tension between the ideal of the American Dream and the grueling blue-collar labor exhibited on-screen. Ho’s aesthetic juxtapositions give her film a tranquil, observational atmosphere fitting into the cinéma vérité tradition. Sống ở đây was Ho’s MFA thesis film at UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) and was nominated by the International Documentary Association for a Best Short award.
- Year2020
- Runtime21 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Vietnamese
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorMelanie Dang Ho
- CinematographerMelanie Dang Ho
- EditorMelanie Dang Ho
