Duc Nguyen video footage for Bolinao 52, circa 1992 - 2011

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Summary

Abstract:
The collection consists of video recordings and transcripts of interviews for the documentary film Bolinao 52, directed by Duc Nguyen. The collection also contains print documents regarding Vietnamese refugee assistance and asylum, a map of the Philippine First Asylum Center, and DVD film footage entitled, Stateless Vietnamese in the Philippines. The film tells the story of a group of Vietnamese boat people who were stranded in the Pacific Ocean for 37 days in 1988. In the documentary, Duc Nguyen interviews Bolinao 52 survivors Tung Trinh and her son Lam Phan, eyewitness and retired US Navy officer William E. Cloonan, as well as rescuer Carlos "Caloy" Cagusaan.
Extent:
0.5 Linear Feet (1 legal size document box) and 6.88 Gigabytes (224 digital files)
Language:
Collection materials are in English, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Ilokano, and Bolinao dialect.
Preferred citation:

Duc Nguyen Video Footage for Bolinao 52. MS-SEA042. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.

For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of digital video recordings and transcripts of interviews for the documentary film Bolinao 52, directed by Duc Nguyen. In the documentary, Duc Nguyen interviews Bolinao 52 survivors Tung Trinh and her son Lam Phan, eyewitness and retired US Navy officer William E. Cloonan, and rescuer Carlos "Caloy" Cagusaan. Transcriptions and translations of the video footage were created by Quan Tran, Duc Nguyen, Francisco Garcia, Stefanie Ritoper, and Julia Tran. Documents used for research for Bolinao 52, are included in the collection, among them documents regarding Vietnamese refugee assistance and asylum, a map of the Philippine First Asylum Center, and DVD footage entitled, Stateless Vietnamese in the Philippines.

Biographical / historical:

Duc Nguyen is a documentary filmmaker and former Vietnamese refugee who directed and produced the film Bolinao 52. Nguyen was rescued as a child in 1980 from the South China Sea by the USS Long Beach. Nguyen was interested in the history of "boat people," Vietnamese refugees who escaped Vietnam by sea in small, often unsafe boats after the fall of Saigon in 1975. Bolinao 52 tells the story of a group of Vietnamese boat people who were stranded in the Pacific Ocean for 37 days in 1988. The original 110 refugees were refused by multiple passing ships, including the USS Dubuque, and many starved and were forced to resort to cannibalism. The 52 remaining survivors were rescued by Filipino fishermen, who brought them to the Philippine island of Bolinao in the province of Pangasinan. In the documentary, Duc Nguyen interviews Bolinao 52 survivors Tung Trinh and her son Lam Phan, eyewitness and retired US Navy officer William E. Cloonan, and rescuer Carlos "Caloy" Cagusaan. Bolinao 52 premiered on March 19, 2007 in San Francisco and on March 27, 2007 in San Jose at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. The film won two Emmy awards (Outstanding Achievement in Documentary and Oustanding Music Composition) for the Northern California region by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2009.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Duc Nguyen, 2011. Accrual gifted by Duc Nguyen, 2019.
Processing information:

Processed by Audra Eagle Yun, 2012.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. The authors or their heirs retain their copyrights to the material. Contact the University of California, Irvine Libraries, Special Collections and Archives for more information (spcoll@uci.edu).

Preferred citation:

Duc Nguyen Video Footage for Bolinao 52. MS-SEA042. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.

For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

Location of this collection:
Southeast Asian Archive
The UCI Libraries, P.O. Box 19557
Irvine, CA 92623-9557, US
Contact:
(949) 824-3947
spcoll@uci.libanswers.com
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