QUYEN NGUYEN-LE
  • Selected Works
  • Upcoming Screenings
  • FILMS
    • A Song in Movement
    • In Living Memory
    • The Morning Passing on El Cajon Blvd
    • Hoài (Ongoing, Memory)
    • Nước (Water/Homeland)
    • Queer Viet Doc
    • The Labyrinth
  • Installation
  • About
  • Selected Works
  • Upcoming Screenings
  • FILMS
    • A Song in Movement
    • In Living Memory
    • The Morning Passing on El Cajon Blvd
    • Hoài (Ongoing, Memory)
    • Nước (Water/Homeland)
    • Queer Viet Doc
    • The Labyrinth
  • Installation
  • About

THE STORY

Nước (Water/Homeland) is an experimental narrative short film about a queer Vietnamese American who attempts to piece together and understand their mother's experience as a Vietnam War refugee.

In loving memory of My Le Nghiem.
Cinemetropolis Best Short Film Award,
Seattle Asian American Film Festival
​
Best Cinematography - Narrative, 
Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Festival
SCHOLARLY MENTIONS

Duong, Lan. “Archives of Memory: Vietnamese American Films, Past and Present.” Film Quarterly , Vol. 73 No. 3, Spring 2020; (pp. 54-58).
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Nguyen, Ly Thuy. “Queer Dis/inheritance and Refugee Futures.” WSQ: Inheritance, Vol. 48 No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2020; (pp. 218-235).

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SCREENINGS

FILM FESTIVALS
Ici Vietnam Festival, Paris, France, 6/29/2019
Viet Film Festival, Orange, CA, 10/13/2018
Ithaca Pan Asian Film Festival, Ithaca, NY, 10/13/2018

​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

​University of California, Santa Cruz​, 5/15/2019
​University of California, Santa Barbara, 4/11/2019
​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

Dorchester Art Project, Boston, MA, 10/2018
Hanoi DocLab, Hanoi, VIETNAM, 8/2018
Common Ground Show, Santa Ana, CA, 8/2018

NQAPIA National Conference, San Francisco, CA, 7/2018
San Diego Art Institute, ABOUT-FACE, 4/2018 - 6/2018​
UC San Diego 
APSA Benefit Show, San Diego, CA 4/2018
​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
RECENT

May 5 ​2018 @ 12:30PM
PHILADELPHIA, PA
Asian Arts Initiative
Center for Refugee Poetics

February 13 2019 @ 6PM
SAN DIEGO, CA
Little Saigon Stories - Lecture Series
FAIR at 44 | 4350 El Cajon Blvd.

​June 2, 2019 @ 1PM
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
San Francisco Public Library
Embracing The Love: LGBTQ Films From Southeast Asia

February 8-9 2020
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
Seattle Asian Art Museum

February 18 2020 @ 6PM 
NYC, NEW YORK
Asian American Writers Workshop
Coming Home - A Film Screening

June 29, 2024
NYC, NEW YORK
​NOWADAYS T4TV

Dec 5, 2024 
LONDON, U.K.
​A Love Letter to Vietnam | Queer East
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POSTCARDS FROM OUR SET...

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/
assistants:
JANET LE
KEELY WEISS

​visual effects artist:
​PHILIP BASTIAN
​
sound designer:
​JUAN LUIS BRAVO

original score by:
​​JEFFER GIANG
  • Selected Works
  • Upcoming Screenings
  • FILMS
    • A Song in Movement
    • In Living Memory
    • The Morning Passing on El Cajon Blvd
    • Hoài (Ongoing, Memory)
    • Nước (Water/Homeland)
    • Queer Viet Doc
    • The Labyrinth
  • Installation
  • About