An Oscar-nominated documentary about a Vietnamese victim of Agent
Orange will be screened at the United Nations headquarters in New York
next week.
Director Courtney Marsh said in a Facebook post that “Chau, Beyond
the Lines” would be shown on June 15, when she and the film’s
protagonist, Le Minh Chau, 25, would also speak with the audience.
The 33-minute documentary shows the effects of Agent Orange, a
defoliant sprayed by the US over Vietnam’s jungles during the war to
deprive Vietnamese soldiers of cover, on Chau.
He suffers from a rare disability in his arms and legs caused by
his mother drinking water from a dioxin-contaminated river before he was
born.
He grew up in a peace camp until 17 and is now an artist in Ho Chi Minh City, living on his own.
The documentary, produced by Jerry Franck and Marsh and filmed over
eight years, won the Best Documentary Short Film at the Fort Lauderdale
International Film Festival in the US last November and was among the
nominees for the latest Academy Awards.
The documentary had its first public screening in Vietnam on April
19 at the US Embassy in Hanoi and the American Center in Ho Chi Minh
City.
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