{"id":20812,"date":"2011-04-29T09:43:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T16:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=20812"},"modified":"2011-09-19T22:50:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T05:50:44","slug":"enforcing-the-silence-conversation-with-filmmaker-tony-nguyen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/04\/29\/enforcing-the-silence-conversation-with-filmmaker-tony-nguyen\/","title":{"rendered":"Enforcing the Silence: Conversation with Filmmaker Tony Nguyen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=100% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/tony_nguyen.JPG\" alt=\"Tony Nguyen\" \/>The Vietnam war officially ended in 1975. But here in the United States, where there was a significant Vietnamese refugee immigrant population, the war continued for a few more years. It\u2019s first known casualty was 27 year old Lam Duong, the founder of the first Vietnamese youth center in the U.S. Because he was seen as a communist sympathizer, he earned the ire of segments of the Vietnamese population in San Francisco, where he lived.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new documentary, exploring this struggle within the Vietnamese immigrant community, will screen at this year\u2019s Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. The film is called Enforcing the Silence.<\/p>\n<p>Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with Tony Nguyen, Director of Enforcing the Silence on April 29, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BScZruHgoAw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The World Premiere of Enforcing the Silence is this Saturday April 30th at 5 pm at the Laemmle Sunset, part of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. The film\u2019s website is www.enforcingthesilence.com.<\/p>\n<p>Martina Steiner recorded this interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"?p=20812\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=100% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/tony_nguyen.JPG\" alt=\"Tony Nguyen\" \/><\/a>The Vietnam war officially ended in 1975. But here in the United States, where there was a significant Vietnamese refugee immigrant population, the war continued for a few more years. It\u2019s first known casualty was 27 year old Lam Duong, the founder of the first Vietnamese youth center in the U.S. Because he was seen as a communist sympathizer, he earned the ire of segments of the Vietnamese population in San Francisco, where he lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}