Giap's Last Day At The Ironing Board Factory
2015
25 min
English
A short film about a Vietnamese American woman and her son, adapting to life in small town America.
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.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Birjinder Films
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Top Cast
Tony Nguyen as Himself
Giap Thi Nguyen as Herself
Top Crew
Tony Nguyen · Director
Steven Okazaki · Producer
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