Doan Hoang

Doan Hoang or oan Hong, is a VietnameseAmerican documentary film director, producer, editor, and screenwriter. She directed and produced the 2007 documentary Oh, Saigon about her family, after leaving Vietnam on the last civilian helicopter as Saigon fell. The documentary won several awards at film festivals and was broadcast on PBS from 20082012. Hoang was selected to be a delegate to Spain for the American Documentary Showcase.

Hoang was born in South Vietnam, and is the daughter of a former South Vietnamese Air Force major from Saigon and a former Mekong Delta plantation heiress. On April 30, 1975, she was airlifted on the final civilian helicopter out of Vietnam at the end of the war. Four months afterwards, she settled in Louisville, Kentucky. When she was nine, she wrote her first book on the Vietnam War. At the age of 12, she made her first documentary The French Revolution. She graduated from Smith College in 1994.

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