Doan Hoang

Film director

1972 –

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Who is Doan Hoang?

Doan Hoang is an award-winning New York-based Vietnamese-American documentary film director, producer, and screenwriter. Ms. Hoang made the successful 2007 PBS documentary "Oh, Saigon" about her family after leaving Vietnam on the last helicopter as Saigon fell. As the Hoang family escaped, they left her older sister, Van.

She said of this all, that “If I could put my finger on the day my family fell apart, it would be April 30, 1975”.

Oh, Saigon tells how the Hoangs coped with this separation living in the United States. Twenty-five years later, Hoang, after growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, returned to Vietnam, finding her father, Nam, had two brothers he never mentioned: Hai, a communist who fought against him in the war for the northern side, and Dzung, a former ARVN who shot himself in hand to not have to fight against his Viet-Cong wife. Ms. Hoang arranges a reunion for her divided family to mixed results.

Ms. Hoang is the daughter of a former South Vietnamese Air Force major from Saigon and a Mekong Delta socialite. After Vietnam, she was raised in Kentucky, writing her first book on the Vietnam War when she was nine years old, and at the age of 13, making her first film documentary on war.

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Born
1972
Vietnam
Also known as
  • Hoàng Nien Thuc-Đoan
Parents
Siblings
Nationality
  • Vietnam
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Smith College

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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