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KQED Education Network & De Anza College present

Bolinao 52
Screening and Discussion

Thursday, May 22, 2008
1:30pm
De Anza College Campus Center, Conference Room A and B
21250 Stevens Creek Blvd.
Cupertino, CA

One boat with 110 passengers escaped from Vietnam. After 37 days of drifting, only 52 survived. This is their story.

KQED Education Network and De Anza College present a screening and discussion of Bolinao 52, a Vietnamese boat people documentary on Thursday, May 22, at 1:30 pm in the Campus Center, Conference Room A and B. This free screening will feature a reception and discussion with the filmmaker Duc Nguyen.

Following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, hundreds of thousands refugees took the perilous escape route across South China Sea to find freedom. Many died of drowning or starvation and thirst. Others were lost at sea, or robbed and killed by pirates. More than 30 years later, no major film or television program has told their stories. Bolinao 52 presents this long-silenced voice, an unspoken legacy of the Vietnam War. Filmmaker Duc Nguyen, also a boat refugee, retraces the odyssey of Bolinao 52 — a vessel adrift on the sea for 37 days — and a survivor Tung Trinh as she returns to her past to tell her story.

BOLINAO 52 is a co-production of Duc Nguyen and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), produced in association with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) and KTEH Public Television with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Additional funding was provided by All Roads Film Project and Pacific Pioneer Fund.

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