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	==Biography==		==Biography==
	~~Hoang~~ is the daughter of a former South Vietnamese Air Force major from Saigon and a Mekong Delta ~~socialite~~.<ref name="~~dvan~~"/> On April 30, 1975, she was airlifted on the final civilian helicopter out of Vietnam at the end of the war.<ref name="nerdsociety"/> She was placed in a refugee camp at ] in Arkansas.{{citation needed\|date=February 2014}} Four months afterwards, she settled in ].<ref name="courierjournal">{{cite news\|url = http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100517/ZONE06/5170327/Vietnamese-community-paved-way-other-immigrants-became-part-Louisville-s-cultural-fabric \| title = Vietnamese community paved way for other immigrants and became part of Louisville's cultural fabric \| first = Charlie \| last =White \| date = May 17, 2010 }}{{subscription required\|date=February 2014}}</ref> When she was nine, she wrote her first book on the Vietnam War.<ref name="ohsaigonpress">{{cite press release\|format=PDF \|url=http://www.letrak.ehu.es/p245-content/en/contenidos/evento/conferencia_realiza_docs/en_biopics/adjuntos/OhSaigon%20studyguide.pdf \| title = American Documentary Showcase - Oh Saigon }}</ref> Around the age of 12-13, she made a film documentary on war.<ref name="ohsaigonpress"/><!-- some press releases say 12 others say 13 --> She graduated from ] in 1990, and ] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://calendar.fivecolleges.edu/FiveCol/calendrome.cgi?span=day&year=2006&month=4&day=10&state_values \|title=Five College Calendar of Events: April 10th, 2006 \|work=Calendar.fivecolleges.edu \| publisher = ] \| date=April 10, 2006 \|accessdate=2014-02-19}}</ref><!-- what was her major? -->		Đoan Hoàng is the daughter of a former South Vietnamese Air Force major from Saigon and a Mekong Delta plantation heiress.<ref name="http://ohsaigon.com/doanhoangbio"/> On April 30, 1975, she was airlifted on the final civilian helicopter out of Vietnam at the end of the war.<ref name="nerdsociety"/> She was placed in a refugee camp at ] in Arkansas.{{citation needed\|date=February 2014}} Four months afterwards, she settled in ].<ref name="courierjournal">{{cite news\|url = http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100517/ZONE06/5170327/Vietnamese-community-paved-way-other-immigrants-became-part-Louisville-s-cultural-fabric \| title = Vietnamese community paved way for other immigrants and became part of Louisville's cultural fabric \| first = Charlie \| last =White \| date = May 17, 2010 }}{{subscription required\|date=February 2014}}</ref> When she was nine, she wrote her first book on the Vietnam War.<ref name="ohsaigonpress">{{cite press release\|format=PDF \|url=http://www.letrak.ehu.es/p245-content/en/contenidos/evento/conferencia_realiza_docs/en_biopics/adjuntos/OhSaigon%20studyguide.pdf \| title = American Documentary Showcase - Oh Saigon }}</ref> Around the age of 12-13, she made a film documentary on war.<ref name="ohsaigonpress"/><!-- some press releases say 12 others say 13 --> She graduated from ] in 1990, and ] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://calendar.fivecolleges.edu/FiveCol/calendrome.cgi?span=day&year=2006&month=4&day=10&state_values \|title=Five College Calendar of Events: April 10th, 2006 \|work=Calendar.fivecolleges.edu \| publisher = ] \| date=April 10, 2006 \|accessdate=2014-02-19}}</ref><!-- what was her major? -->

	After college, she worked as an editor and writer for national magazines, including ''Details'', ''Saveur'', ''House & Garden'', ''Garden Design'', and ''Spin''.<ref name="ohsaigonpress"/>		After college, she worked as an editor and writer for national magazines, including ''Details'', ''Saveur'', ''House & Garden'', ''Garden Design'', and ''Spin''.<ref name="ohsaigonpress"/>
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	Hoang took the film to 16 countries, including a tour of Spain in 2011 and 2012 tour of Vietnam for the US State Department and American Documentary Showcase.<ref name="showcase"/> She was invited back to Vietnam by the United Nations Vietnam delegation in September 2012 as an American delegate.{{citation needed\|date=February 2014}}		Hoang took the film to 16 countries, including a tour of Spain in 2011 and 2012 tour of Vietnam for the US State Department and American Documentary Showcase.<ref name="showcase"/> She was invited back to Vietnam by the United Nations Vietnam delegation in September 2012 as an American delegate.{{citation needed\|date=February 2014}}

	Hoang heads up her own film production company, Nuoc Pictures and is working on a follow-up to '']'' about the women in her family ~~tentatively~~ called ''Scars for Eyes''.{{citation needed\|date=February 2014}} Hoang divides her time between ], ], ] and ].{{citation needed\|date=February 2014}} Some of her other films include ''Agent'', ''Good Morning Captains'', ''A Requiem ~~for Vegetables~~'', and ''American Geisha''.<ref name="ohsaigonpress"/> She is also writing a screenplay called ''Love London'',<ref name="nerdsociety"/><ref name="viffbio"/> based on her marriage to an English aristocrat, and a comedy called ''Danger Man''<ref name="viffbio"/>		Hoang heads up her own film production company, Nuoc Pictures and is working on a follow-up to '']'' about the women in her family called ''Scars for Eyes''.{{citation needed\|date=February 2014}} Hoang divides her time between ], ], ] and ].{{citation needed\|date=February 2014}} Some of her other films include ''Agent'', ''Good Morning Captains'', ''A Requiem'', and ''American Geisha''.<ref name="ohsaigonpress"/>

			Đoan Hoàng is an award-winning director, producer, writer, and editor of films, heading her production company in New York City, Nuoc Productions. Doan's documentary Oh, Saigon (streaming from Netflix, Amazon) is about her family's experiences being taken out on the last helicopter out of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War, and the division and reuniting of her family.<ref name="http://ohsaigon.com/doanhoangbio"/>

			Oh, Saigon, funded by the Sundance Institute, ITVS, the Center for Asian American Media, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Non-Fiction Feature Film at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and the Best Feature Documentary & Best Brooklyn Film at the Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival. The film has been screened and broadcast in 16 countries, translated into five languages, and has had 7 national US airings on PBS.<ref name="http://ohsaigon.com/doanhoangbio"/>

			Hoang traveled with Oh, Saigon throughout Spain and in both Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam for the U. S. Department of State and has lectured at universities, colleges, institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Yale, Columbia, Smith, University of Southern California, University of Bilbao, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, the Weisner Museum, the US Embassy in Vietnam and many others.<ref name="http://ohsaigon.com/doanhoangbio"/>

			Born in the former Republic of South Vietnam to an air force major and a Mekong Delta plantation heiress, Hoang was raised in Kentucky, where she wrote her first book about the Vietnam War at age 9 and made her first documentary film about war at the age of 12. A graduate of Smith College, Hoang spent years as an editor and writer, working for national magazines such as Details, House & Garden, Spin, and Saveur as she wrote a family history that eventually turned into her first feature documentary, Oh, Saigon. Some of her other film titles include Agent, Good Morning Captain, and A Requiem, and she co-produced Hard Times, Doritoholics Anonymous, and various music videos.<ref name="http://ohsaigon.com/doanhoangbio"/>

			She is currently working on Scars for Eyes, a partly-animated follow-up to Oh, Saigon, which received a grant from Asian Women's Giving Circle and the Ms. Foundation. The film about the women in her family who unbeknownst to each other, share the same terrible secret. The film is slated to finish in 2015. Doan is also a yoga & meditation teacher, and volunteers with organizations assisting survivors of war, trauma, rape, and addiction such as One Billion Rising, V-Day with ], who had written in Doan as a minor character in the Vagina Monologues play and book, as well as a character in a number of other books and magazine articles. <ref name="http://ohsaigon.com/doanhoangbio"/>

			From 1998 to 2006, Hoang was married to John Francis Campbell, a London-based jazz and salsa musician and executive director in finance. An ] and ] graduate, Campbell is the great-grandson of Edmund Henry Byng, the 6th ], a descendant of ], cousin to the ], nephew of ], Baron of Askan and one of the last CEOs of the family company, ], a and descendant of ], known for the ]. The couple met a wedding in France, and lived in London and New York City, and parted on amicable terms. Campbell was an executive producer of Oh, Saigon.<ref name="http://ohsaigon.com/doanhoangbio"/></ref>

	==Filmography==		==Filmography==

	* 2007: '']''
			FEATURE-LENGTH DIRECTING & PRODUCING CREDITS

			SCARS FOR EYES, Feature documentary,In Post Production, 2014
			A follow-up to Oh, Saigon about the women of the director’s family, who unbeknownst to each other, are all survivors of rape. GRANTS RECEIVED: Asian Women’s Giving Circle, Ms. Foundation

			SIDE MAN, Feature documentary,In Post Production, 2014
			A film about the music industry of New York City in the 1960s and 1970s, featuring the music of Van Morrison, Simon & Garfunkle, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Frankie Valli and the Four Season & the Beatles.

			LEGACY OF DENIAL, Feature documentary, 2009
			Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary tours Vietnam, discovering the continuing effect Agent Orange poisoning.

			THE TRAIL OF HO, 2008
			About the worship of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam and the hatred of him among American diasporic Vietnamese.

			OH, SAIGON, 2007
			The last family airlifted out of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War attempts to resolve its divided past. Three brothers, one capitalist, one communist, and one anti-war meet again after decades and confront their differences. Meanwhile, two first generation Vietnamese-American sisters try to reconcile a difficult past that altered the course of their lives: one was airlifted out of Saigon at the end of the war while the other was left behind and imprisoned.

			AWARDS
			Sundance Institute Documentary Fund Award, 2005
			ITVS Open Call Award, 2005
			Center For Asian American Media's Media Fund Award, 2006
			Fund for Reconciliation & Development Award, 2005
			Vietnam Relief Effort Humanitarian Project Award, 2008
			Grand Jury Prize – Best Documentary – Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, 2008
			Best Documentary Award - 42nd Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival, 2008
			Best Brooklyn Film - 42nd Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival, 2008
			Best of the Fest – Austin Film Festival, 2008
			Best Documentary Nominee - San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, 2007
			Best Documentary Nominee – Vietnam International Film Festival, April 2009

			SELECTED INSTITUTIONS
			Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
			Brooklyn Museum
			Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
			Director’s Guild - Los Angeles, California
			United Nations conference, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
			United States Embassy, Madrid, Spain
			United States Embassy, Hanoi, Vietnam
			United States Consulate, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
			Weisner Museum, Miineapolis, MN
			Cineteca del Matadero Madrid, Spain
			Columbia University. New York, NY
			The Frontline Club, London, England
			Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
			Georgetown University
			Hanoi Cinemateque,Vietnam
			Harvard University
			Louisville Public Library
			New York University (various screenings)
			Opera Plaza Theater, San Francisco, California
			The New School
			Quinnipiac University
			Smith College
			Trocadero Cinema, London, England
			Tisch School for the Arts
			Tisch School for the Arts Asia, Singapore
			Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
			Universidad of Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
			Universidad del Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
			Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
			University of Alabama, Montgomery, Alabama
			University of California-Berkeley
			University of California-Irvine
			University of California-San Diego
			University of Florida
			University of Maryland
			University of Southern California
			Vassar College
			Yale University

			SELECTED FESTIVALS (2007 to present)
			American Documentary Showcase, US State Department, national tours of Spain & Vietnam
			Austin Film Festival
			Austin Film Festival Documentary Series
			Barcelona Asian Film Festival
			Berlin Asian Film Festival,
			The Big Read Festival, Hiram, Ohio & Pittsfield, Massachusetts
			Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival
			Chicago Asian American Showcase
			Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
			Oslo Melafestivalen, Oslo, Norway
			Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival
			Muestra Interactional Documental, Bogotá, Columbia
			Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Documentary Exhibition
			Raindance Film Festival, London, England
			San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
			Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid Film Festival, Madrid, Spain
			Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival
			Warsaw Vietnamese International Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
			Vietnamese International Film Festival
			Zimbabwe International Film Festival


			TELEVISION BROADCASTS (2008 TO PRESENT)
			PBS (multiple national airings)
			HTV4, Vietnam
			YES TELEVISION, Israel
			UR SWEDISH PUBLIC TELEVISION, Sweden, Denmark
			ETB, Spain

			STREAMING (2012 TO PRESENT)
			Netflix Amazon Roku

			S H O R T S & V I D E O S

			STARBUCKS, Advertising campaign, 2014: producing various shoots all over Vietnam

			HASBRO, Consulting director, Official Furby Demo, Introducing Furby Boom, Furbling Unlock, and various Furby videos, 2013

			ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET, Music video, 2013
			A colorful, fun music video for pop artist Emily Newhouse about her internet addiction.

			DORITOHOLICS ANONYMOUS - Commercial, 2013
			An addicted young man goes to his first Doritholics Anonymous meeting.

			FOOLED HIM, and 1, 2, 3
			Co-director & Eiditor - Music videos by Will Lee of the Paul Schaeffer Band of the Late Show with David Letterman and the Fab Faux.

			HARD TIMES – Narrative, 2012
			A producer gets the tables turned on him by an actress. Exec. Produced by Billy “Silver Dollar” Baxter (Dawn of the Dead). Co-director, co-producer, co-screenwriter.

			AGENT - Documentary, 20 min. - 2002
			About a former CIA agent enamored of war, and his wife and children, who were affected by his violence and inability to live in peacetime.

			NUOC - Narrative, 2000
			Examines the meaning of the Vietnamese words, nu’ó’c (water, tide, country) and tiê´ng (language, sound, voice) with beautiful images of the Mekong River as small trickle to a river going out to sea, inhabited like a city on water yet resonating war.

			GOOD MORNING, CAPTAINS - Narrative, 1994
			About a car accident between two disaffected Gen-Xers.

			HOW NOT TO MAKE A VIDEO – Narrative, 1994
			A 20-minute comedic short about the foibles of videomaking.

			VEGETABLE REQUIEM – Narrative, 1993
			A comedic short about the massacre of vegetables by a scary 1950s homemaker.

			FRENCH REVOLUTION – Docudrama, 40 min, 1986, About the French Royal Family as they were being overthrown by the French Revolution.
			<ref>http://ohsaigon.com/doanhoangbio</ref>

	== Notes ==		== Notes ==
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	==References==		==References==
			{{Official biography\|http://www.ohsaigon.com/doanhoangbio\|''Doan Hoang Bio on Oh, Saigon''}} official website
	{{reflist}}

	== External links ==		== External links ==
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Doan Hoang
Hoàng Niên Thục Đoan
Born	1972 (age 51–52) Nha Trang, Vietnam
Nationality	Vietnamese-American
Alma mater	Smith College
Occupation(s)	Film producer, director, writer
Known for	2007 documentary Oh, Saigon

Doan Hoang (born in Nha Trang, Vietnam), is a Vietnamese-American documentary film director, producer, and screenwriter. She produced the 2007 documentary Oh, Saigon about her family after leaving Vietnam on the last civilian helicopter as Saigon fell. The documentary won several awards at film festivals and also broadcast on PBS, and she was selected to be a delegate to Vietnam for the American Documentary Showcase.

Biography

Đoan Hoàng is the daughter of a former South Vietnamese Air Force major from Saigon and a Mekong Delta plantation heiress. On April 30, 1975, she was airlifted on the final civilian helicopter out of Vietnam at the end of the war. She was placed in a refugee camp at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas. Four months afterwards, she settled in Louisville, Kentucky. When she was nine, she wrote her first book on the Vietnam War. Around the age of 12-13, she made a film documentary on war. She graduated from Seneca High School in 1990, and Smith College in 1994.

After college, she worked as an editor and writer for national magazines, including Details, Saveur, House & Garden, Garden Design, and Spin.

Hoang developed the film Oh, Saigon over seven years, where she documented her family. In 2005, the Sundance Institute awarded Hoang a grant for the then titled Homeland. She also received funding from the Independent Television Service (ITVS), the Center for Asian American Media, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Hoang premiered Oh, Saigon in March 2007 at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and received a nomination for Best Documentary. She had her New York premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in 2008. At the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, her film received the Grand Jury Prize. It won the Best Film and Best Feature Documentary at the 42nd Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival in 2008. It also screened at the Vietnam International Film Festival.

Hoang took the film to 16 countries, including a tour of Spain in 2011 and 2012 tour of Vietnam for the US State Department and American Documentary Showcase. She was invited back to Vietnam by the United Nations Vietnam delegation in September 2012 as an American delegate.

Hoang heads up her own film production company, Nuoc Pictures and is working on a follow-up to Oh, Saigon about the women in her family called Scars for Eyes. Hoang divides her time between New York, Los Angeles, Ho Chi Minh City and Louisville. Some of her other films include Agent, Good Morning Captains, A Requiem, and American Geisha.

Đoan Hoàng is an award-winning director, producer, writer, and editor of films, heading her production company in New York City, Nuoc Productions. Doan's documentary Oh, Saigon (streaming from Netflix, Amazon) is about her family's experiences being taken out on the last helicopter out of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War, and the division and reuniting of her family.

Oh, Saigon, funded by the Sundance Institute, ITVS, the Center for Asian American Media, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Non-Fiction Feature Film at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and the Best Feature Documentary & Best Brooklyn Film at the Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival. The film has been screened and broadcast in 16 countries, translated into five languages, and has had 7 national US airings on PBS.

Hoang traveled with Oh, Saigon throughout Spain and in both Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam for the U. S. Department of State and has lectured at universities, colleges, institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Yale, Columbia, Smith, University of Southern California, University of Bilbao, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, the Weisner Museum, the US Embassy in Vietnam and many others.

Born in the former Republic of South Vietnam to an air force major and a Mekong Delta plantation heiress, Hoang was raised in Kentucky, where she wrote her first book about the Vietnam War at age 9 and made her first documentary film about war at the age of 12. A graduate of Smith College, Hoang spent years as an editor and writer, working for national magazines such as Details, House & Garden, Spin, and Saveur as she wrote a family history that eventually turned into her first feature documentary, Oh, Saigon. Some of her other film titles include Agent, Good Morning Captain, and A Requiem, and she co-produced Hard Times, Doritoholics Anonymous, and various music videos.

She is currently working on Scars for Eyes, a partly-animated follow-up to Oh, Saigon, which received a grant from Asian Women's Giving Circle and the Ms. Foundation. The film about the women in her family who unbeknownst to each other, share the same terrible secret. The film is slated to finish in 2015. Doan is also a yoga & meditation teacher, and volunteers with organizations assisting survivors of war, trauma, rape, and addiction such as One Billion Rising, V-Day with Eve Ensler, who had written in Doan as a minor character in the Vagina Monologues play and book, as well as a character in a number of other books and magazine articles.

From 1998 to 2006, Hoang was married to John Francis Campbell, a London-based jazz and salsa musician and executive director in finance. An University of Oxford and Eton College graduate, Campbell is the great-grandson of Edmund Henry Byng, the 6th Earl of Strafford, a descendant of Henry Thomas Colebrooke, cousin to the Marquis of Anglesey, nephew of Jock Campbell, Baron of Askan and one of the last CEOs of the family company, Booker, a and descendant of Clan Campbell, known for the Glencoe Massacre. The couple met a wedding in France, and lived in London and New York City, and parted on amicable terms. Campbell was an executive producer of Oh, Saigon.</ref>

Filmography

FEATURE-LENGTH DIRECTING & PRODUCING CREDITS

SCARS FOR EYES, Feature documentary,In Post Production, 2014 A follow-up to Oh, Saigon about the women of the director’s family, who unbeknownst to each other, are all survivors of rape. GRANTS RECEIVED: Asian Women’s Giving Circle, Ms. Foundation

SIDE MAN, Feature documentary,In Post Production, 2014 A film about the music industry of New York City in the 1960s and 1970s, featuring the music of Van Morrison, Simon & Garfunkle, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Frankie Valli and the Four Season & the Beatles.

LEGACY OF DENIAL, Feature documentary, 2009 Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary tours Vietnam, discovering the continuing effect Agent Orange poisoning.

THE TRAIL OF HO, 2008 About the worship of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam and the hatred of him among American diasporic Vietnamese.

OH, SAIGON, 2007 The last family airlifted out of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War attempts to resolve its divided past. Three brothers, one capitalist, one communist, and one anti-war meet again after decades and confront their differences. Meanwhile, two first generation Vietnamese-American sisters try to reconcile a difficult past that altered the course of their lives: one was airlifted out of Saigon at the end of the war while the other was left behind and imprisoned.

AWARDS Sundance Institute Documentary Fund Award, 2005 ITVS Open Call Award, 2005 Center For Asian American Media's Media Fund Award, 2006 Fund for Reconciliation & Development Award, 2005 Vietnam Relief Effort Humanitarian Project Award, 2008 Grand Jury Prize – Best Documentary – Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, 2008 Best Documentary Award - 42nd Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival, 2008 Best Brooklyn Film - 42nd Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival, 2008 Best of the Fest – Austin Film Festival, 2008 Best Documentary Nominee - San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, 2007 Best Documentary Nominee – Vietnam International Film Festival, April 2009

SELECTED INSTITUTIONS Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Brooklyn Museum Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Director’s Guild - Los Angeles, California United Nations conference, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam United States Embassy, Madrid, Spain United States Embassy, Hanoi, Vietnam United States Consulate, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Weisner Museum, Miineapolis, MN Cineteca del Matadero Madrid, Spain Columbia University. New York, NY The Frontline Club, London, England Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago Georgetown University Hanoi Cinemateque,Vietnam Harvard University Louisville Public Library New York University (various screenings) Opera Plaza Theater, San Francisco, California The New School Quinnipiac University Smith College Trocadero Cinema, London, England Tisch School for the Arts Tisch School for the Arts Asia, Singapore Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Universidad of Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain Universidad del Deusto, Bilbao, Spain Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain University of Alabama, Montgomery, Alabama University of California-Berkeley University of California-Irvine University of California-San Diego University of Florida University of Maryland University of Southern California Vassar College Yale University

SELECTED FESTIVALS (2007 to present) American Documentary Showcase, US State Department, national tours of Spain & Vietnam Austin Film Festival Austin Film Festival Documentary Series Barcelona Asian Film Festival Berlin Asian Film Festival, The Big Read Festival, Hiram, Ohio & Pittsfield, Massachusetts Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival Chicago Asian American Showcase Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Oslo Melafestivalen, Oslo, Norway Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival Muestra Interactional Documental, Bogotá, Columbia Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Documentary Exhibition Raindance Film Festival, London, England San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid Film Festival, Madrid, Spain Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival Warsaw Vietnamese International Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland Vietnamese International Film Festival Zimbabwe International Film Festival

TELEVISION BROADCASTS (2008 TO PRESENT) PBS (multiple national airings) HTV4, Vietnam YES TELEVISION, Israel UR SWEDISH PUBLIC TELEVISION, Sweden, Denmark ETB, Spain

STREAMING (2012 TO PRESENT) Netflix Amazon Roku

S H O R T S & V I D E O S

STARBUCKS, Advertising campaign, 2014: producing various shoots all over Vietnam

HASBRO, Consulting director, Official Furby Demo, Introducing Furby Boom, Furbling Unlock, and various Furby videos, 2013

ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET, Music video, 2013 A colorful, fun music video for pop artist Emily Newhouse about her internet addiction.

DORITOHOLICS ANONYMOUS - Commercial, 2013 An addicted young man goes to his first Doritholics Anonymous meeting.

FOOLED HIM, and 1, 2, 3 Co-director & Eiditor - Music videos by Will Lee of the Paul Schaeffer Band of the Late Show with David Letterman and the Fab Faux.

HARD TIMES – Narrative, 2012 A producer gets the tables turned on him by an actress. Exec. Produced by Billy “Silver Dollar” Baxter (Dawn of the Dead). Co-director, co-producer, co-screenwriter.

AGENT - Documentary, 20 min. - 2002 About a former CIA agent enamored of war, and his wife and children, who were affected by his violence and inability to live in peacetime.

NUOC - Narrative, 2000 Examines the meaning of the Vietnamese words, nu’ó’c (water, tide, country) and tiê´ng (language, sound, voice) with beautiful images of the Mekong River as small trickle to a river going out to sea, inhabited like a city on water yet resonating war.

GOOD MORNING, CAPTAINS - Narrative, 1994 About a car accident between two disaffected Gen-Xers.

HOW NOT TO MAKE A VIDEO – Narrative, 1994 A 20-minute comedic short about the foibles of videomaking.

VEGETABLE REQUIEM – Narrative, 1993 A comedic short about the massacre of vegetables by a scary 1950s homemaker.

FRENCH REVOLUTION – Docudrama, 40 min, 1986, About the French Royal Family as they were being overthrown by the French Revolution.

Notes

References

Template:Official biography official website

External links

Oh, Saigon official website
ITVS Press release for "Oh, Saigon" - includes some Doan Hoang biographic material.
NERDSociety - Interview with Doan Hoang
Doan Hoang Official Bio official bio

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