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Duc Nguyen

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  An Emmy Award winner, Duc Nguyen’s documentaries cover the subjects of home, immigration, war, conflict history and reconciliation. His work includes Bolinao 52, winner of 2 Northern California Regional Emmy Awards in 2009 for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary and Outstanding Music Composition. Stateless, his second feature documentary about a group of Vietnamese who were stuck in the Philippines without a home for 16 years, won an Audience Choice Award as well as a Spotlight Award in 2013 at the Vietnamese International Film Festival. In 2017, Duc produced, directed and edited his third installment for the Vietnamese boat-people trilogy, Nothing Left to Lose. It tells the story of approximately 100 Vietnamese refugees who lived in hiding in Thailand for 25 years hoping to one day reclaim the dignity of being recognized as a person. In 2022, he edited and post coordinated for On Demand Korea original series, Asian Inspirations, profiling three distinguished Asian Americans whose work made great impact in society. In the same year, he edited The Essential Muhammadu Buhari, a documentary about the life and time of Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari. Currently, he is working on several multimedia projects including a documentary about the MS Truong Xuan, the last ship that left Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon in 1975 which became the first recorded case of Vietnamese refugees traveling by sea.