The taleof An Phuc House , co-produced by Canada’s Babel Entertainment inAssociation and Vietnam’s Crea TV, has been nominated for bestfeature documentary film, announced NYCIFF organisers.
The 91-minute film is a story about the daily lives, learning andstrong will of nearly 20 third-generation victims of the toxic chemical,who are being cared for at the An Phuc Centre in Ho Chi Minh City.
Canadian director Ivan Tankushev, whose wife is Vietnamese, said he found out about their interesting stories by chance.
The decision to make a film about them came to him after he spent timevisiting them and talking with their parents, who are living indifferent provinces and cities across Vietnam.
From1961-1971, US troops sprayed more than 80 million litres of herbicides -44 million litres of which were AO that contained nearly 370kg ofdioxin - over southern Vietnam.
As a result, around 3.5–4million Vietnamese people were exposed to AO/dioxin. Many of thevictims have died, while millions of their descendants are living withdeformities and diseases due to the effects of AO.-VNA
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