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Filmmakers Steer Clear of Big Easy Clichés
August 30, 2010Five years ago, the worst natural disaster ever to hit the United States struck southern Louisiana, forever altering the face of America’s most unique and freewheeling city, New Orleans. While the news media revisits the Crescent City to find out what has changed and what hasn’t, a team of filmmakers working with ITVS is documenting the real story of the…
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Ngôi Làng Mang Tên Versailles - (A Village Called Versailles)
June 17, 2010Community Cinema's National Coordinator Desiree Gutierrez reflects on a screening of A Village Called Versailles held earlier this month before an entirely Vietnamese audience in Southern California. As one of the National Community Cinema Coordinators, I am use to hosting screenings with diverse crowds, but Sunday night I had the chance to be the…
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Youth Activists Step Up in New Orleans
May 25, 2010Part of the miraculous story of the neighborhood called Versailles in New Orleans rising from the floodwaters to rebuild itself and sustain its citizens after Hurricane Katrina was the unprecedented leadership role that the younger generation took. Traditionally, the Vietnamese culture in both Vietnam and in this community’s adopted home in New…
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New Orleans Vietnamese Take Another Blow
May 24, 2010The scale of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is nearly impossible to comprehend. Because the spill is an ongoing catastrophe, the scope of the devastation to local communities cannot even begin to be tabulated. A third to half of the commercial fishers in the spill area are Vietnamese. Again, the Vietnamese community in New Orleans is…
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Father Vien — New Orleans' Community Champion
May 20, 2010Father Vien Nguyen, a Catholic priest and progressive social activist in the Vietnamese community of New Orleans recently received the Community Champion Award from the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO). Father Vien is prominently featured in the Independent Lens documentary A Village Called Versailles ,…