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Village called subree7/15/2023 Leo Chiang about A Village Called Versailles and more recent projects DC Asian Pacific American Festival Zoom Chat with S.“ Waste Management Scores Supreme Court Win in Long-running Fight Over New Orleans Landfill.” Waste Dive, Dec. “ ’We Are Already Back’: The Post-Katrina Struggle for Survival and Community Control in New Orleans East’s Vietnamese Community of Versailles.” Asian American Law Journal, 18(1), 2011, pp. “ A Controversial New Orleans Landfill Is Set to Close, But Eco-disaster Still Looms.” Grist, Aug. Now It May Be Fading.” New York Times, May 5, 2018.Ībout Katrina, the Chef Menteur Landfill and the Vietnamese American Community “ Vietnamese Forged a Community in New Orleans. “ Beyond Gastronomy: Locating the Vietnamese Population in New Orleans.” Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, 24, 2014. “ A Gulf Unites Us: The Vietnamese Americans of Black New Orleans East.” American Quarterly, 63(1), 2011, pp. Back to Asian Americans on Celluloid Timeline Further reading and listening Organizations Featured in FilmĪbout the Vietnamese American Community in New Orleans He is known for developing really complex characters in his documentaries. For much of his career, Chiang has split his time between Taiwan and the United States. He was one of the producers of the recent PBS series Asian Americans. A queer filmmaker, Chiang also directed Out Run, which profiles the only LGBT political party in the world. Cao Goes to Washington(an event he discussed near the end of A Village Called Versailles) and Our Time Machine (which examines an artist’s attempt to come to terms with his father’s dementia). While Chiang was an MFA student at USC in the late 1990s, the Directors Guild of America commissioned him to direct and edit a documentary about the early careers of several well-known directors. These years of separation from his parents continue to affect his relationship to his family today. At 15, his parents sent him and his two younger siblings to get an education in the United States. One of the foremost Asian American documentarians of the past two decades, S. This, in turn, allowed the community to simultaneously preserve their traditions better, and to Americanize and integrate itself into surrounding neighborhoods. Third, A Village Called Versailles showed how political organizing can help to bridge the generation gap that afflicted the community. Eric Tang’s article in the bibliography discusses the conditions that made this coalition possible in East New Orleans. Second, the film showed the power of a coalition between African Americans and Asian Americans. First, this is one of the first documentaries to give attention to an established Asian American community in the American South. The Emmy Award-nominated A Village Called Versailles is significant for at least three reasons. The hurricane destroyed the community’s homes, but-as Father Vien Nguyen, the film’s chief storyteller said-the storm gave the people “a sense of who they are or who they could be.” Significance This led the community to organize politically for the first time-first to fight for the restoration of basic services, and then for the closure of the Chef Menteur Landfill. In the aftermath of the devastating storm, the community discovered that it has been left out of discussions about the rebuilding of New Orleans. Its main survival strategy was to keep quiet and not make a fuss. When Hurricane Katrina hit the Crescent City, Versailles was an 8,000-strong working-class community that has achieved some financial stability, but remained culturally and politically isolated. They fled to South Vietnam in 1957, and then to New Orleans (via Fort Chaffee, Arkansas) in the late 1970s. Many families from this community originally came from two villages in North Vietnam, and they were twice exiled. Leo Chiang Length: 66 minutes View the film on:Ī Village Called Versailles tells the story of a close-knit community of mostly Catholic Vietnamese Americans living in East New Orleans. Back to Asian Americans on Celluloid Timeline A Village Called Versailles (2009) Director and Producer: S.
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