Movies: Van Tran Nguyen

An imaginative telling of the story of a Vietnamese American mother-daughter duo who, in their attempt to heal the rift between them, reenact and satirize scenes from celebrated Vietnam War films while depicting a diasporic reality. Two inventive st...

ERIE COUNTY SMILE is a parody of "Paris By Night (PBN)", a popular Vietnamese-language variety show that gained notoriety in the Vietnamese diasporic community in the mid-1990s and is still in production today. In the waiting area of my family’s nail...