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Vietnamese International Film Festival Panel: Crossing Boundaries: Female Filmmakers and Questions of Gender and Genre
Moderated by UCR Professor Lan Duong (Center for Women in Coalition)
Location: UC Irvine
Date: April 5, 2009
Event: Vietnamese International Film Festival (sponsored by the Vietnamese American & Letters Association)
As part of its film programming, which includes 65+ national and international films featured throughout the 10-day film festival, the Vietnamese International Film Festival (ViFF) will be organizing a series of panels on Vietnamese American female filmmakers, Hurricane Katrina, and Vietnamese cinema. As a member of UC Riverside’s Center for Women in Coalition (CWiC), Dr. Lan Duong will be moderating a panel called “Crossing Boundaries: Female Filmmakers and Questions of Gender and Genre,” which brings together a group of women filmmakers who have shaped and continue to influence the emergent body of work that is Vietnamese American filmmaking. These panelists tentatively include Kim-Trang Tran (“Blindness” Series), Kim Spurlock (Down in Number 5), Doan Hoang (Oh, Saigon), and Tien Nguyen (Fortunate Son). We will be speaking about issues related to genre, funding, and the reception of women’s films, especially within the Vietnamese American film context.
- A photo still from "Surname Viet, Given Name Nam" by Trinh Minh-Ha
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