A village called Versailles

Resource Information

The work A village called Versailles represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bowdoin College Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

A village called Versailles

Statement of responsibility

Walking Iris Films presents a film by S. Leo Chiang ; producer/director, S. Leo Chiang ; a co-production of S. Leo Chiang/Walking Iris Films and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)

Title variation

• Versailles
• Làng Versailles (Vẹc Sai)

Contributor

• Walking Iris Films
• Walking Iris Films
• Chiang, S. Leo,
• Chiang, S. Leo,
• Vō, Vân-Ánh Vanessa,
• Vō, Vân-Ánh Vanessa,
• Goodman, Joel, (Joel Scott,)
• Center for Asian American Media
• Center for Asian American Media
• Goodman, Joel, (Joel Scott,)
• Independent Television Service
• Independent Television Service
• New Day Films
• New Day Films

Composer

• Vō, Vân-Ánh Vanessa,
• Goodman, Joel, (Joel Scott,)
• Goodman, Joel, (Joel Scott,)
• Vō, Vân-Ánh Vanessa,

Director

• Chiang, S. Leo,
• Chiang, S. Leo,

Producer

• Chiang, S. Leo,
• Chiang, S. Leo,

Subject

• Hurricane Katrina, 2005
• Documentary films
• Documentary films
• Ecology
• Ethnic relations
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films -- United States
• Hurricane Katrina (2005)
• Hurricane Katrina, 2005
• Louisiana
• Louisiana -- New Orleans
• New Orleans (La.) -- Environmental conditions
• New Orleans (La.) -- Environmental conditions
• New Orleans (La.) -- Ethnic relations
• New Orleans (La.) -- Ethnic relations
• Nonfiction films
• Nonfiction films
• Nonfiction films
• Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
• Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
• Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Videorecording
• Vietnamese Americans
• Vietnamese Americans -- Louisiana | New Orleans
• Vietnamese Americans -- Louisiana | New Orleans
• 2005
• Disaster victims
• Disaster victims -- Louisiana
• Disaster victims -- Louisiana
• Documentary films

Genre

• Nonfiction films
• Feature films
• Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Documentary films

Language

• eng
• vie
• eng
• vie
• eng
• eng

Summary

"A documentary about Versailles, an isolated community in eastern New Orleans that has been settled by Vietnamese refugees since the late 1970s. After Hurricane Katrina, Versailles residents impressively rise to the challenges by returning and rebuilding before most neighborhoods in New Orleans, only to have their homes threatened by a new government-imposed toxic landfill just two miles away. [The film] recounts the empowering story of how this group of people, who has already suffered so much in their lifetime, turns a devastating disaster into a catalyst for change and a chance for a better future"--Container

Member of

• Independent lens (Television program)
• Independent lens (Television program)

Awards note

New Orleans Film Festival, Audience Award; Council on Foundations Film & Video Fest, Henry Hampton Award; Philly Asian Am Film Festival, Best Documentary

Cataloging source

COX

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Editors, Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Amy Young, S. Leo Chiang ; camera/sound, S. Leo Chiang, Francis James ; composer, Joel Goodman ; composer, traditional Vietnamese music, Vanessa Vo

Language note

• Theatrical version: chiefly in English with parts in Vietnamese with English subtitles; optional subtitles in Vietnamese
• PBS/Educational version: in English, with optional English subtitles; closed captioned in English; English audio description

Runtime

67

Technique

live action