Daughter From Danang
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Vicente Franco
Do Huu Vinh
Judah Gold
Scott Greiner
Heidi Bub
Art Maxwell
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Born to a Vietnamese mother and an anonymous American serviceman, seven-year-old Hiep was part of Operation Babylift, a military operation to relocate Vietnamese children to the United States for adoption. Her mother feared for Hiep's safety if she were to remain in Vietnam and agreed to send her to the States. Hiep (renamed Heidi) was adopted by a single mother in the small town of Pulaski, Tennessee, where she worked hard to assimilate into American culture. As a young adult, her relationship with her adoptive mother deteriorated, and she commenced a cross-continent search for her birth mother. Through a fortunate coincidence, she found a link to her mother, and the two began a correspondence. She learned that her mother was still living in Danang with her half-siblings and extended family. Heidi decides to make the journey to her native homeland to meet her family and soon realizes just how deep their cultural differences run.
Cast
Do Huu Vinh
Judah Gold
Scott Greiner
Heidi Bub
Art Maxwell
David Jaffe
Mai Thi Kim
Crew
Kevin Abrams
Lynn Adler
Mark Adler
Heidi Bub
Rose Compagine
Ben Conrad
Gail Dolgin
Margaret Drain
James E Dunford
Dinh Dung
Nancy Farrell
Vicente Franco
Vicente Franco
Brandon Quincy Griffin
Sharon Grimberg
Ravi Jain
John Jenkins
Alison Kennedy
Jaime Kibben
James Lebrecht
James Lebrecht
Sunshine Ludder
Sunshine Ludder
Marnie Moore
Susan Mottau
Cam Nguyen
Tran Tuong Nhu
Tran Tuong Nhu
Dan Olmsted
Hector H Perez
Ha Viet Quang
Kenn Rabin
Frank Rinella
Kim Roberts
Ed Rudolph
Vanessa Ruiz
Helen R Russell
Mark Samels
Greg Shea
Mark Steele
Rebekah Suggs
Patti Tauscher
Bac Hoi Tran
Lan Tran
Van-anh T Vo
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Documentary Feature
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Nominated for two 2003 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) (Vicente Franco) and Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-Camera) (Kim Roberts), by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Winner of the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
Released in United States 2002
Released in United States Fall November 1, 2002
Released in United States January 2002
Released in United States November 15, 2002
Shown at New Directors/New Films in New York City March 22 - April 7, 2002.
Shown at Santa Barbara International Film Festival February 27 - March 3, 2002.
Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Documentary Competition) in Park City, Utah January 10-20, 2002.
Aired in USA on PBS on April 7, 2003 as part of the "American Experience" series.
Released in United States 2002 (Shown at New Directors/New Films in New York City March 22 - April 7, 2002.)
Released in United States 2002 (Shown at Santa Barbara International Film Festival February 27 - March 3, 2002.)
Released in United States January 2002 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Documentary Competition) in Park City, Utah January 10-20, 2002.)
Released in United States Fall November 1, 2002
Released in United States November 15, 2002 (Nuart; Los Angeles)
