Screening and Director Q&A: "Taking Root: Southeast Asian Stories of Resettlement in Philadelphia"

Join the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) and the USC School of Cinematic Arts for a special screening and discussion of “Taking Root: Southeast Asian Stories of Resettlement in Philadelphia”, winner of the Viet Film Fest 2024 Audience Choice Award for Feature Film. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Oanh-Nhi Nguyen (Film Director & Co-Producer of "Taking Root") and Nancy Nguyen (Co-Director of VietLead). 

• When: Wednesday, February 5
• Time: 5:00 PM Pacific Time
• Where: USC School of Cinematic Arts, Room SCI 106

The event is free and open to the public, and RSVPs are encouraged to secure your seat: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoMwG6aLIytsBrCZ6tHOKv0WGh-nZuJi2DHsVJ7fzm6Frxlw/viewform 

🎬 About the film: Oanh-Nhi Nguyen’s Taking Root: Southeast Asian Stories of Resettlement in Philadelphia is a documentary which analyzes the history and modern realities of Southeast Asian refugees who found a new home in Philadelphia. The documentary – a three-part webseries that will be presented at Viet Film Fest in its entirety, with the three parts spliced together to form a feature film – contextualizes Southeast Asian presence in the United States as a product of American interventionism and war in the region.