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"Documentary in Digital Age- Finding the Right Channel" with filmmaker Duc Nguyen

"Documentary in Digital Age- Finding the Right Channel" with Duc Nguyen, filmmaker. Nguyen will discuss the making of his film Bolinao 52 and the role of social media in a filmmaker's toolbox. Presented in conjunction with FMS 130/AsAm114: Asian American Documentary Practices.
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Free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Department of Film & Media Studies, and Department of Asian American Studies.

Speaker Bio:
Duc Nguyen has been working in the entertainment and television industries for over 15 years. From 1997 to 2000, Duc worked as an interactive television program producer for GTE mainstreet. His main responsibility was designing and implementing a system to bring internet content through a set-top box for cable subscribers. In 2001, he produced "Mediated Reality" a documentary capturing the tug-of-war between US and Cuba over 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez. The documentary examines the mainstream television's portrayal of the Elian case and proposes diverse viewpoints from ordinary Cubans and Americans. Duc, an avid traveler, has done video documenting work in Vietnam, Cuba, the Andes mountain and in the Amazon river, South America. In 2002, he spent a month in Ecuador documenting a group of archaeologists searching for a Pre-Inca civilization. In 2003, Nguyen served as an assistant editor for "The New Americans" and "My Journey Home", multi-part series on family and identities.

In 2007, he produced and directed Bolinao 52, Duc’s first feature documentary. The documentary portrays the ill-fated journey of a refugee boat that drifted 37 days at sea. The film won the audience choice award for 2007 Vietnamese International Film Festival. It garnered two Northern California Emmy Awards in 2009 for Outstanding Documentary and Music Composition. Bolinao 52 was shown in over 15 international film festivals and was broadcasted in Japan, Australia and on PBS stations nationally. Currently, he is producing STATELESS a documentary about the Vietnamese boat people who were left behind in the Philippines, Thailand and Cambodia. Duc is currently living in Orange County, CA with his wife and young son.