{"id":12564,"date":"2011-03-10T04:41:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T04:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12564"},"modified":"2013-08-27T04:55:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T04:55:53","slug":"daughter-from-danang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12564","title":{"rendered":"Daughter from Danang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daughterfromdanang.com\" target=\"_blank\">Daughter from Danang<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2002<br \/>\nU.S.A.<br \/>\n81 Minutes<\/p>\n<p>Directed by:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gail Dolgin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vicente Franco<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daughterfromdanang.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daughterfromdanang.com\/resources\/images\/photos\/Heidi_Kim.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A heartbreaking documentary that upsets your expectations of happily-ever-afters, <em>Daughter from Danang<\/em> is a riveting emotional drama of longing, identity, and the personal legacy of war. To all outward appearances, Heidi [Bub] is the proverbial \u201call-American girl\u201d, hailing from small town <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pulaski,_Tennessee\" target=\"_blank\">Pulaski, Tenn<\/a>. But her birth name was Mai Thi Hiep. Born in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Da_Nang\" target=\"_blank\">Danang, Vietnam<\/a> in 1968, she\u2019s the mixed-race daughter of an American serviceman and a Vietnamese woman. Fearing for her daughter\u2019s safety at the war\u2019s end, Hiep\u2019s mother sent her to the U.S. on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operation_Babylift\" target=\"_blank\">Operation Babylift<\/a>\u201d, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gerald_Ford\" target=\"_blank\">Ford<\/a> administration plan to relocate orphans and mixed-race children to the U.S. for adoption before they fell victim to a frighteningly uncertain future in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam\" target=\"_blank\">Vietnam<\/a> after the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fall_of_Saigon\" target=\"_blank\">Americans pulled out<\/a>. Mother and daughter would know nothing about each other for 22 years.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as if by a miracle, they are reunited in Danang. But what seems like the cue for a happy ending is anything but. Heidi and her Vietnamese relatives find themselves caught in a confusing clash of cultures and at the mercy of conflicting emotions that will change their lives forever. Through intimate and sometimes excruciating moments, <em>Daughter from Danang<\/em> profoundly shows how wide the chasms of cultural difference and how deep the wounds of war can run\u2014even within one family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daughter from Danang 2002 U.S.A. 81 Minutes Directed by: Gail Dolgin Vicente Franco A heartbreaking documentary that upsets your expectations of happily-ever-afters, Daughter from Danang is a riveting emotional drama of longing, identity, and the personal legacy of war. To all outward appearances, Heidi [Bub] is the proverbial \u201call-American girl\u201d, hailing from small town Pulaski, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1245,125,8,20,842,25],"tags":[5652,5655,5654,5653,1130],"class_list":["post-12564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-biography","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","category-women","tag-gail-dolgin","tag-heidi-bub","tag-mai-thi-hiep","tag-vicente-franco","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}