Canadian Premiere
Hoa Thị Lê and Huệ Nguyên Chế recall their experience of working as extras on Apocalypse Now after fleeing Vietnam in 1975.
Hoa Thị Lê Chế, Huệ Nguyên Chế
USA
2025
In Vietnamese with English subtitles
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Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Su Kim
Producer
Cathy Linh Che, Jess X. Snow
Screenwriter
Cathy Linh Che
Cinematography
Jess X. Snow
Editor
Christopher Radcliff
Original Music
Eliot Leigh
Christopher Radcliff
Christopher Radcliff is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has screened at festivals worldwide and online via Criterion, Short of the Week, and Lé Cinema Club. His latest film We Were the Scenery received the Short Film Jury Award for Nonfiction at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
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