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''Bolinao 52'' is a
documentary by
Vietnamese American
Vietnamese Americans ( vi, Người Mỹ gốc Việt, lit=Viet-origin American people) are Americans of Vietnamese ancestry. They make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese and are the fourth-largest Asian American ethnic group after Chinese ...
director
Duc Nguyen about the Vietnamese
boat people
Vietnamese boat people ( vi, Thuyền nhân Việt Nam), also known simply as boat people, refers to the refugees who fled Vietnam by boat and ship following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. This migration and humanitarian crisis was at its h ...
ship that was originally stranded in the Pacific Ocean in 1988. During their 37 days at sea, the group encountered violent storms and engine failures. They fought their thirst and hunger and a US Navy ship reportedly refused to rescue them, forcing the boat people to starve despite resorting to
cannibalism
Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food. Cannibalism is a common ecological interaction in the animal kingdom and has been recorded in more than 1,500 species. Human cannibalism is well documented, b ...
. Only 52 out of the 110 boat people survived the tragedy and were rescued by Filipino fishermen who brought them to
Bolinao
Bolinao, officially the Municipality of Bolinao ( pag, Baley na Bolinao; ilo, Ili ti Bolinao; tgl, Bayan ng Bolinao), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of ...
in the Philippines.
''Bolinao 52'' premiered on March 19, 2007, in
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
and on March 24, 2007, in
San Jose at the
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
CAAMFest, known prior to 2013 as the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF), is presented every March in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States as the nation’s largest showcase for new Asian American and Asia ...
.
See also
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Boat people
Vietnamese boat people ( vi, Thuyền nhân Việt Nam), also known simply as boat people, refers to the refugees who fled Vietnam by boat and ship following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. This migration and humanitarian crisis was at its h ...
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Vượt Sóng
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Vietnamese International Film Festival First started in 2003, the Vietnamese International Film Festival (also known as ViFF) is a biennial film festival organized by the non-profits Vietnamese-American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) and University of California, Los Angeles, UCLAs V ...
External links
Archival collections
Guide to the Duc Nguyen Video Footage for Bolinao 52.Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Other
Official Website*
Seeing 'Bolinao 52'?Phim "Bolinao 52" Thảm kịch của 110 người vượt biên đi tìm tự doBolinao 52 - Sự cảm thông đến từ những người còn sốngUCIspace @ the Libraries digital collection: Duc Nguyen video footage for Bolinao 52
2007 films
Vietnamese diaspora
Vietnamese documentary films
Vietnamese refugees
2007 documentary films
Vietnamese-language films
Vietnamese historical films
Documentary films about refugees
Incidents of cannibalism
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