SPRING WILL COME
Marion Hoang Ngoc Hill | 2024 | USA | 16’ | Fiction


A sprawling portrait of indigenous Montagnard refugee community in North Carolina, threading intergenerational storytelling and history-making in the aftermath of the Viet Nam War.
This film is an episode of the Southeast Asian American Journeys. Produced in association with SEARAC and CAAM, Southeast Asian American Journeys explores the stories of five local SEAA refugee communities who, while being shaped by their resettlement journeys, have transformed the landscape of which they are a fundamental part.
Quyên Nguyễn-Lê is a queer vietnamese filmmaker born to boat refugee parents where Chumash and Tongva lands meet in Los Ángeles, California. Quyên's film work–spanning between documentary and scripted genres–focuses on the ways histories are deeply felt in the quotidian everyday | quyennl.com