THE STORY
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Nước (Water/Homeland) is an experimental narrative short film about a genderqueer Vietnamese American teen who attempts to piece together and understand their mother's experience as a Vietnam War refugee.
The journey pulls us into a fantastical series of iconic historical photographs, ultimately highlighting the complexity of understanding another's experiences and instead opens up possibilities for building relationships based on presence and co-existence. In loving memory of My Le Nghiem. Best Cinematography - Narrative,
Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Festival Cinemetropolis Best Short Film Award, Seattle Asian American Film Festival |
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SCREENING HXSTORY
FILM FESTIVALS Leeds Queer Film Festival, Leeds, UK, 3/22/2018 SEA x SEA (Southeast Asia X Seattle) Film Festival, Seattle, WA, 1/2018 USC Asian Pacific Film Fest, Los Angeles, CA, 10/2017 Houston Asian Pacific Film Festival, Houston, TX, 6/2017 Third Eye Film Festival, New Orleans, LA, 5/2017 Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Festival, Sacramento, CA, 5/2017 CAAMfest, San Francisco, CA, 3/2017 Seattle Asian American Film Festival, Seattle, WA, 2/2017 Third Eye Film Festival, NYC, NY, 12/2016 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA, 11/2016 San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego, CA, 11/2016 Another Hole in the Head Festival, San Francisco, CA, 11/2016 Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Vancouver, CANADA, 10/26 Newfest: New York LGBT Film Festival, NYC, NY, 10/2016 OUT at the Movies Int’l LGBT Film Fest, Winston-Salem, NC, 10/2016 Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival, Chicago, IL, 9/2016 Long Beach QFilm Fest, Long Beach, CA, 9/2016 Queer Vietnamese Film Festival, Hanoi, VIETNAM, 8/2016 Best of Fest | Outfest, West Hollywood, CA, 8/2016 Outfest: Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, 7/2016 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA, 4/2016 UNIVERSITIES Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 5/2018 Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 4/2018 Stanford University, 4/2018 Tufts University, Boston, MA, 10/2018 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 10/2017 University of California, Riverside, CA, 5/2017 University of California, San Diego, CA, 5/2017 Harvard University, Boston, MA, 4/2017 California State University, Los Angeles, CA, 4/2017 Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 4/2017 Claremont College, Claremont, CA, 4/2017 Chapman University, Orange, CA, 10/2016 CONFERENCES, SHOWCASES, & FUNDRAISERS We Are Irreplaceable: A Night of Queer Asian Film, Poetry & Art, Seattle, WA, 1/2018 Uproot @ Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, 12/2017 Gia đình là gia đình: “Ba mẹ ơi, con là người đồng tính!”, Seattle, WA, 11/2017 EXUBERANT: CELEBRATING US, Chinatown LA, 10/2017 make ___ place exhibit, New York Immigrant Coalition, NYC, NY, 8/2017 2nd Annual QTPOC Art Show, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA, 7/2017 Southeast Asian American Studies Film Showcase, Lowell, MA, 7/2017 Vănguard #4 Release Party, Saigon, VIETNAM, 7/2017 Militarism and Migration Conference, San Diego, CA, 4/2017 International Queer Vietnamese Film Week, Hanoi, VN, 4/2017 API Equality, Los Angeles, CA, 1/2017 Atelier Celadon, Studio XX, Montreal, CANADA, 12/2016 Asian American Writers Workshop, NYC, NY, 10/2016 Engaging with Vietnam Conference, Honolulu, HI, 10/2016 We Own the 8th Showcase, Los Angeles, CA, 9/2016 QTViet Refreshments Launch, Berkeley, CA, 8/2016 Queering the Air Fundraiser, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA, 8/2016 Uprooted from the Scenes, Los Angeles, CA, 7/2016 Tuesday Night Cafe, Los Angeles, CA, 6/2016 |
2018-19 SCREENINGS
April 20 2018 @ 6PM SAN DIEGO, CA UC San Diego APSA Benefit Show April 21 - June 3 2018 SAN DIEGO, CA San Diego Art Institute ABOUT-FACE May 5 2018 @ 12:30PM PHILADELPHIA, PA Asian Arts Initiative Center for Refugee Poetics July 27 2018 @ 2:30PM SAN FRANCISCO, CA NQAPIA 2018 National Conference August 2 2018 @ 7PM SANTA ANA, CA Common Ground Show August 29 2018 @ 6:30PM HANOI, VIETNAM Hanoi DocLab October 13 2018 @ 4PM ORANGE, CA Viet Film Festival October 13 2018 @ 4:30PM EST ITHACA, NY Ithaca Pan Asian Film Festival October 20 2018 @ 2PM BOSTON, MA Dorchester Art Project February 13 2019 @ 6PM SAN DIEGO, CA Little Saigon Stories - Lecture Series FAIR at 44 | 4350 El Cajon Blvd. April 11 2019 @ 7PM SANTA BARBARA, CA University of California, Santa Barbara May 15, 2019 @ 5PM SANTA CRUZ, CA University of California, Santa Cruz June 2, 2019 @ 1PM SAN FRANCISCO, CA San Francisco Public Library Embracing The Love: LGBTQ Films From Southeast Asia June 29 2019 @ 6PM PARIS, FRANCE Cinéma Le Grand Action Ici Vietnam Festival |
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written, directed, edited by:
QUYÊN NGUYEN-LE
produced by:
JES VU
director of photography:
PAUL BERTOLINO
assistant camera/
gaffers:
JESS X. SNOW
NAMRATA DESAI
LATERRIEN OFFICER-MCINTOSH
production design/
costuming:
JANET LE
KEELY WEISS
visual effects artist:
PHILIP BASTIAN
sound designer:
JUAN LUIS BRAVO
original score by:
JEFFER GIANG
QUYÊN NGUYEN-LE
produced by:
JES VU
director of photography:
PAUL BERTOLINO
assistant camera/
gaffers:
JESS X. SNOW
NAMRATA DESAI
LATERRIEN OFFICER-MCINTOSH
production design/
costuming:
JANET LE
KEELY WEISS
visual effects artist:
PHILIP BASTIAN
sound designer:
JUAN LUIS BRAVO
original score by:
JEFFER GIANG