Doan Hoang

Doan Hoang (b. 1972, Nha Trang, Vietnam; née Hoàng Nien Thuc-Đoan) is an award-winning Vietnamese-American film producer, screenwriter, and director who made the successful 2007 documentary "Oh, Saigon" about the life of her family after they left Vietnam, as it fell in the 1970s, how she and her family were carried out on the last helicopter on April 30, 1975, except for her older sister, Van, who was left behind. It then tells how they coped with this separation living in the United States and twenty five years later finally how they got together and went back to visit Vietnam again and see their relatives there.

She said of this all, that “If I could put my finger on the day my family fell apart, it would be April 30, 1975”.^[1]

Ms. Hoang is the daughter of a former South Vietnamese Air Force major from Saigon and a Mekong Delta socialite. After Vietnam, she was raised in Louisville, Kentucky, writing her first book on the Vietnam War when she was nine years old, and at the age of 13, making her first film documentary on war.

She graduated from Smith College and for years she was an editor and writer for national magazines, including Details, House & Garden, Spin and Saveur.

In 2009, she appeared on Little Saigon TV and was radio interviewed on NPR's New America Now on KUCI Radio.

Some of her other films include "Agent", "Good Morning Captains" and "A Requiem".

Hoang heads up her own film production company, Nuoc Pictures and is working on a documentary called American Geisha.

Notes

1. ^ "Oh, Saigon" synopsis - Asian Pacific Film Festival 2008 notes, Visual Communications, Southern California Asian American Studies Central, Inc., Los Angeles, California.

External links

• ITVS Press release for "Oh, Saigon" - includes some Doan Hoang biographic material.
• NERDSociety - Interview with Doan Hoang

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Name	Hoang, Doan
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Short description	Film producer and screenwriter
Date of birth	1972
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