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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 Eve Ensler, who had written in Doan as a minor character in the Vagina Monologues. <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 Oxford and Eton graduate, Campbell is the great-grandson of the 7th Earl of Strafford, nephew to Jock Campbell, Baron of Askan, a cousin to the Marquis of Anglesy, 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, parting on amicable terms. Campbell was an executive producer of Oh, Saigon.<ref name="http://ohsaigon.com/doanhoangbio"/>


==Filmography== ==Filmography==

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Doan Hoang
Hoàng Niên Thục Đoan
Born1972 (age 51–52)
Nha Trang, Vietnam
NationalityVietnamese-American
Alma materSmith College
Occupation(s)Film producer, director, writer
Known for2007 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

Hoang is the daughter of a former South Vietnamese Air Force major from Saigon and a Mekong Delta socialite. 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.

From 1998 to 2006, Hoang was married to John Francis Campbell, a London-based jazz and salsa musician and executive director in finance. An Oxford and Eton graduate, Campbell is the great-grandson of the 7th Earl of Strafford, nephew to Jock Campbell, Baron of Askan, a cousin to the Marquis of Anglesy, 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, parting on amicable terms. Campbell was an executive producer of Oh, Saigon.

Filmography

Notes

References

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  11. Eddy, Cheryl (2007-03-13). "SFIAAFF: Freedom isn't free". SF Bay Guardian. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
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