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Cold Mountain shown with Oh, Saigon

Cold Mountain 2009, 28 min
Directed By: Deb Wallwork, Mike Hazard
Cold Mountain is a creative documentary portrait of the Tang Dynasty Chinese poet Han Shan. Traveling with the poet Jim Lenfestey in China and Japan, we interviewed Burton Watson and Red Pine, two of his key translators. Then we recorded with the legendary Gary Snyder, whose Han Shan translations he published in his first book.

Co-directed by Mike Hazard and Deb Wallwork, music is by the internationally renowned pipa player Gao Hong and animations are by John Akre. Its a project of The Center for International Education supported by Outagamie Foundation and the Bush Foundation.

OH, SAIGON VIETNAM 2007 57 MINUTES DIRECTOR: DOAN HOANG
In 2000, as a young Vietnamese-American woman, Doan Hoang began filming interviews with her family in America, and kept the camera rolling as they journeyed back to Vietnam. Doan had been on that last civilian helicopter out of Saigon at the age of 3. In seeking to uncover the mysterious circumstances of her familys schism, she has compiled a gripping story that reveals the humanity of those who were soldiers, wives, children, prisoners, revolutionaries, and refugees. The wars deep and lasting amifications divided this family and many others between two worlds: the cold, "free," and affluent United States, and the colorful, Communist, and poverty-stricken Vietnam. In resolving the family's divided past, a father reunites with the brother he fought against decades after the conflict that split them. A mother in impossible circumstances is forced to chose between her daughter and her husband. Meanwhile, two first-generation Vietnamese-American sisters try to reconcile a difficult past that altered the course of their lives.