Whether it’s TV, film or books, the Vietnam War and its aftermath are often told through the eyes of American GI’s. But nearly 50 years after the fall of Saigon, some Vietnamese American storytellers ...
New Wave” is a documentary about Vietnamese refugees leaning into Eurodisco as they built new lives in SoCal after the fall of Saigon. It also speaks to generational trauma and grief.
But unusually, danceable beats and hypnotic synths invade the archival footage of the final days of Saigon, when the U.S. government swooped in to resettle more than 120,000 refugees airlifted to ...