A featurette of Le Van Kiet’s upcoming coming-of-age movie Dust of Life has been posted on the official movie website. The movie will have its first pre-screening at end of this month in Orange County. Wanna see the USC documentary this movie is loosely based on? See http://asianamericanmedia.org/buidoi/index.html. Speaking of movies, Ham Tran’s Journey from the Fall will be shown during the closing gala of next week’s San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Be there to meet the crew, the cast or simply see the most ground-breaking movie the world of Vietnamese cinema has produced in recent years.
VietACT is gearing up full steam. The human-trafficking awareness campaign Relay Against Trafficking will kick off in Minnesota March 17th at the Vietnamese Interacting as One conference, stop by in Austin TX, where we’ll present at VASCON2, and then go all over the nation (with a stop here in San Jose on June 10th and a big walkathon in Little Saigon on May 13th 2006). Check the VietACT website for the full national campaign dates. In addition, VietACT’s internship program deadline is in three weeks on March 31st. This is a great opportunity to volunteer in Taiwan with the Vietnamese Migrant Workers & Brides Office. Hey, check out UCSD student Kevin Le’s work on a human trafficking newsletter for his Asian American Studies class. Impressive, ey? Fellas, VietACT is growing at a faster rate than we can actually handle it, and we really need more help with active leaders who can take more ownership of projects. We are running very thin on volunteer staff. If you can actively help out, please join our efforts.
After several years of great campaigning Young Australian of the Year Hoi Trinh managed to get the vast majority of the 2000 stateless Vietnamese Filipino out of there. Listen to the NPR Morning Edition story Vietnamese Refugees Finish Long Journey to U.S.
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