Fund a Southeast Asian Community Documentary
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In the midst of growing white supremacy, anti-Blackness, Asian Hate nationally and local hyper-gentrification, VietLead and filmmaker Oanh-Nhi Nguyen will create a community storytelling project to give voice and visibility to the Southeast Asian experience in Philadelphia.
The documentary will cover our community's story of resettlement and how people survived and thrived including building Washington Ave, a business corridor that is currently a battleground of development. It will utilize the archival research that Lan Dinh, VietLead’s Farm & Food Sovereignty Director, is currently conducting as a part of a Chronicling Resistance Fellowship with the Philadelphia Free Library. The documentary will utilize participatory community media methodology. Over 6 weeks, VietLead will work with six returning highschool organizers to conduct 15 interviews with community leaders on the resettlement and building of the Southeast Asian community. VietLead will also share how we have organized our community for the past 6 years in hopes of sharing movement lessons and to learn from others.
This documentary will raise awareness for the Southeast Asian community and a rallying call for social change and solidarity. By donating to this campaign, you're paying for our people of color crew, gear rentals, food, transportation --- you're helping to actualize this documentary!
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Oanh-Nhi Nguyen is a Vietnamese storyteller and activist who has worked in social justice and philanthropy spaces focused on women and girls of color. For her, storytelling is about truth-telling and healing to imagine new realities of belonging.
VietLead (www.vietlead.org) is a powerful organization that has served as an intergenerational healing, solidarity and organizing space for Southeast Asian communities. Their motto is to heal, resist and grow as a community. They lead with self-determination and liberation from building a community garden in Camden tended by elders and youth to organizing community defense to fight against ICE, with a recent win of freeing a Cambodian man who was on the cusp of getting deported.
Image illustrated by My-Tien Pham.
The documentary will cover our community's story of resettlement and how people survived and thrived including building Washington Ave, a business corridor that is currently a battleground of development. It will utilize the archival research that Lan Dinh, VietLead’s Farm & Food Sovereignty Director, is currently conducting as a part of a Chronicling Resistance Fellowship with the Philadelphia Free Library. The documentary will utilize participatory community media methodology. Over 6 weeks, VietLead will work with six returning highschool organizers to conduct 15 interviews with community leaders on the resettlement and building of the Southeast Asian community. VietLead will also share how we have organized our community for the past 6 years in hopes of sharing movement lessons and to learn from others.
This documentary will raise awareness for the Southeast Asian community and a rallying call for social change and solidarity. By donating to this campaign, you're paying for our people of color crew, gear rentals, food, transportation --- you're helping to actualize this documentary!
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Oanh-Nhi Nguyen is a Vietnamese storyteller and activist who has worked in social justice and philanthropy spaces focused on women and girls of color. For her, storytelling is about truth-telling and healing to imagine new realities of belonging.
VietLead (www.vietlead.org) is a powerful organization that has served as an intergenerational healing, solidarity and organizing space for Southeast Asian communities. Their motto is to heal, resist and grow as a community. They lead with self-determination and liberation from building a community garden in Camden tended by elders and youth to organizing community defense to fight against ICE, with a recent win of freeing a Cambodian man who was on the cusp of getting deported.
Image illustrated by My-Tien Pham.
Organizer
Oanh-Nhi Nguyen
Organizer
Seattle, WA