Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Duc Nguyen’s STATELESS tells the story of Vietnamese War

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Duc Nguyen’s STATELESS tells the story of Vietnamese War refugees who never made it to America, settled illegally in the Philippines, and are preparing to interview with U.S. State Department officials when the immigration department decides to open new cases in 2005. Like a spelling bee movie on steroids, the tension ratchets as the viewer gets to know a selection of Boat People and how they have eked out a living in the fringes of Manila for more than 15 years. With no rights, many of them sell gray market goods door to door, and comprise an underground culture of displaced Vietnamese. The access and honesty given by the interviewees is amazing and so is the footage used by director, producer, and editor Nguyen.

Playing at San Jose CAAMFest Film Festival on 8/17.