THE FILMMAKERS

Saigon, U.S.A. was produced and directed by Lindsey Jang and Robert C. Winn. Lindsey and Robert met at the USC School of Cinema-Television through a common interest in social activism, Asian America and the power of documentary film.

Lindsey Jang’s USC thesis film, Flames in the Heart, won Best Fiction Film in the MediaOne Student Film Competition. He also produced and directed the documentaries Stolen Ground, about Asian American men revealing how racism has affected their lives, which won a Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and No Evidence, about a doctor who returns to serve his boyhood community in South Central Los Angeles. His tongue-in-cheek manifesto for Asian American filmmakers, "Through the Mirror, Sideways", was published in the anthology Countervisions: Asian American Film Criticism by Temple University Press.

Robert C. Winn is a former lawyer who previously worked on international trade and human rights issues. His documentary projects as a producer and director include Grassroots Rising, a documentary about the new Asian American labor movement in Southern California, in conjunction with Visual Communications, and Sandman, a documentary about an artist whose canvas is the beaches of Northern California (produced with Chesley Chen), and At the Crossroads: Women Leaders in Hong Kong, about prominent women in Hong Kong being affected by the change in sovereignty, which won the Roy W. Dean Award. He also co-wrote Plowshares and Swords: The Economics of Occupation (Beacon Press), which won the Rafael Lemkin award for writing in Human Rights. He is currently directing Childhood in Translation, funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, The California Endowment and the Pacific Pioneer Fund.

Many thanks:

Joy Neugebauer
Jimmy Tong Nguyen
Katherine Nguyen
Peter Nguyen
Lan Quoc Nguyen
Long Nguyen
Michael Nguyen
Nam Loc Nguyen
Robert Nghiem Nguyen
Trung Quang Nguyen
Peter Pham
Ronald Talmo
John Thai, LSTV
Ann P. Tran
Truong Van Tran
Van Thai Tran
Officer Nicholas Tran
Swan Vu
Detective Tim Vu
Steve Anderson
Ted Braun
Annie Chu & Lee Cannon
of AT&T Digital Media Center
Alicia Dwyer
Linda Hess, KABC
Janet Howard
Laura Pak
Renee Tajima-Pena

CREDITS

Produced & directed by

Lindsey Jang and
Robert C. Winn

Associate producers

Jeffrey Brody
Eric Koyanagi

Music Score by

William Brendle

Sound editing & mix

Michael Kowalski

Vietnam footage by

Long Nguyen

Additional Camera

Matthew T. Irving
Charles Swanson
Irene Turner

Archival Research

Jeff Krulik
Kenn Rabin
Helen Weiss

Participants

Kathy Buchoz
Xuyen Dong-Matsuda
Kathy Kim Thy Hoang
Frank Jao
Andrew Lam
Tony Lam
Colonel Le Khac Ly
Vi Ly
Q. Bao Nguyen
Chuyen, Thuy, Vu & Viet Nguyen
Thi Ha Pham
Qui Duc Nguyen

Editorial advisor

Mark Jonathan Harris

For the California Council
for the Humanities

Felicia Kelley

For ITVS

Claire Aguilar
Robby Fahey
Elizabeth Meyer
Heidi Schuster
Heather Searles
Patrick Wickham

For NAATA

Toni Tabora
Don Young

For Visual Communications

Linda Mabalot
Amy Kato
Abe Ferrer
Leslie Ito

Cheryl Head, CPB
Cheryl Jones, PBS

And thanks to all the wonderful

people at KOCE including:

Bruce Reed
Jo Caines
Bette Kain
Allison Badger
and especially
Director of Production
Ed Miskevich

Special thanks

Deniz, Aydin and Ziya
Lourdes, Amelia Naomi and Auggie