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Giap's Last Day At The Ironing Board Factory

Mar 14, 2015

0h 25m

★ 0.0

A short film about a Vietnamese American woman and her son, adapting to life in small town America.

Overview

In 1975, a seven-months pregnant Vietnamese refugee, Giap, escapes Saigon in a boat and, within weeks, finds herself working on an assembly line in Seymour, Indiana. 35 years later, her aspiring filmmaker son, Tony, decides to document her final day of work at the last ironing board factory in America.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Birjinder Films

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Cast

Himself

Tony Nguyen

Herself

Giap Thi Nguyen

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Giap's Last Day At The Ironing Board Factory

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