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| Hoang Nien Thuc-Doan | |
| 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), (née Hoàng Niên Thuc-Doan), is a Vietnamese-American documentary film and video director, producer, screenwriter, editor, cinematographer, and university lecturer. She directed, produced, and appeared in the 2007 documentary Oh, Saigon about her family after leaving Vietnam on the helicopter taking civilians out as Saigon fell. Oh, Saigon won several awards at film festivals, broadcasted on PBS and other international channels, and is currently available on Netflix and Amazon.com. Hoang was selected to be a delegate to Spain and Vietnam for the United States Department of State on the American Documentary Showcase.
Biography
Doan 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 the Bardstown Road area of 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, where she studied writing, sociology, art, and film.
After college, she worked as an editor and writer for national magazines, including Details, Saveur, House & Garden, Garden Design, and Spin, having interviewed musicians such as Bonnie "Prince" Billy aka Will Oldham for Spin, Isaac Hayes, Damien Hirst, Marc Quinn, and snowboarder Shaun Palmer for Details, architect Frank Gehry for House & Garden and film director John Waters for Garden Design.
Hoang developed the film Oh, Saigon over seven years, where she documented her family and their journey from and back to Vietnam. In 2005, the Sundance Institute awarded Hoang a Sundance Documentary Fund Award for the then titled Homeland. She also received awards 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 for Non-Fiction Feature. 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 17 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 a Vietnamese-American delegate.
Hoang heads up her own film production company, Nuoc Pictures and is working on a sort-of follow-up film to Oh, Saigon and its companion book about the women in her family called Scars for Eyes, which received a grant from Asian Women's Giving Circle and the Ms. Foundation for Women. Hoang divides her time between New York, Los Angeles, and Ho Chi Minh City Some of her other films include Agent, Good Morning, Captain, A Requiem for Vegetables, and American Geisha. .
Trivia
From 1998-2006, Hoang was married to John F. Campbell, descendant of Clan Campbell, the Duke of Argyll, George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, and nephew of Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan. Campbell attended Eton College and University of Oxford
Hoang was a minor character in Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues, and was played by actress Rosie Perez in New York City. Hoang served as a committee member to Ensler's non-profit organization for women, V-Day and volunteers with One Billion Rising. She volunteers helping victims of trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and addiction.
Hoang won several Junior Olympic gold, silver, and bronze medals for the Great Lakes region in epee and foil fencing from 1986-1989.
Hoang was briefly singer and guitarist of a Northampton, Massachusetts riot grrl band called Cheryl Tiegs which had played gigs with bands like the Supreme Dicks, Nirvana, and the Scud Mountain Boys, an earlier incarnation of the Pernice Brothers. Their last performance was at the Museum of Modern Art in 1994.
Hoang began her artistic career as a oil painter.
Hoang owned a yoga studio called Om Shanti Yoga for several years. She is a certified yoga instructor and meditation teacher.
Hoang owns a fashionable bicycle helmet company, Tat Hats, www.tathats.com.
Filmography
- 2014 in progress: Scars for Eyes
- 2014 in progress: Side Man for guitarist Al Gorgoni
- 2013 Addicted to the Internet, music video, Emily Newhouse
- 2013 Fooled Him and 1,2,3, editor, music video for Will Lee
- 2012 Hard Times Narrative, co-director, co-producer, co-screenwriter
- 2012 Sincerity Music Video for Irish band, Remma
- 2009 Legacy of Denial, feature documentary for Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary
- 2007: Oh, Saigon
- 2002 Agent documentary short
- 2000 Nuoc documentary short
- 1994 How Not To Make A Video
- 1993 Good Morning, Captain music video
- 1993 Requieum narrative short
- 1986 ''French Revolution, documentary
Notes
References
- ^ "Doan Hoang | DVAN". Dvanonline.com. 2010-01-25. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
- ^ "Oh, Saigon - Photos and Press Kit". ITVS. 1975-04-30. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
- ^ "American Documentary Showcase - Oh Saigon" (PDF) (Press release).
- ^ "Interview with Filmmaker Doan Hoang: Oh, Saigon – Life After Vietnam War |". Nerdsociety.com. 2011-11-17. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
- ^ "American Documentary Showcase - Who Fact Sheet" (PDF).
- White, Charlie (May 17, 2010). "Vietnamese community paved way for other immigrants and became part of Louisville's cultural fabric".(subscription required)
- "Five College Calendar of Events: April 10th, 2006". Calendar.fivecolleges.edu. Five Colleges. April 10, 2006. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
- "Indies : Sundance Documentary Fund Announces Grants For Thirteen Documentary Projects". Filmmakers.com. Media Pro Tech. 2005-11-20. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
- "Funded Projects Archive | CAAM Home". Caamedia.org. 2009-07-21. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
- "SFIAAFF : Browse - Documentary Competition". Festival.asianamericanmedia.org. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
- Eddy, Cheryl (2007-03-13). "SFIAAFF: Freedom isn't free". SF Bay Guardian. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
- ^ "D Filmmaker Bios". Viet Film Fest. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
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External links
- Oh, Saigon official website
- ITVS Press release for "Oh, Saigon" - includes some Doan Hoang biographic material.
- NERDSociety - Interview with Doan Hoang