SEADRIFT
Directed by Tim Tsai- Southern Features
- USA
- Civil Rights, Culture, History, Immigration, Race, Refugees/ Immigration, Southern Interest, Student Friendly
- English, Vietnamese
- Subtitled
- 2019
- 69 mins
- Arkansas State premiere
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shareIn the 70s, a group of Vietnamese refugees settled in Seadrift, Texas, on the invitation of a crab processing factory owner. Slowly, they joined the local crab fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico, but racial tensions erupt into violence, resulting in a murder that brings the KKK to town and caused the refugees to flee, once again. Decades later, this film brings former residents together to investigate what happened and to ask whether reconciliation is possible.
In Person: Filmmaker, Tim Tsai
PRODUCER: Tim Tsai
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Colin Harrington
EDITORS: Tim Tsai, Angela Pires
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THE LAST TRAPP FAMILY
Directed by Hudson Lines
The last commercial fishing family in Rhode Island practice traditional trap fishing, struggling to survive in a changing industry powered by technology.
