Global Voices “Witnesses to a Secret War" | Courtesy of Blackbird Films Inc./ITVS
Deborah Dickson; a co-production of BlackBird Films and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), with funding provided by CPB.
Brooklyn, NY
This film tells the story of three generations of Hmong refugees as they struggle with their personal and political legacies. The Xiong family, who fought on America’s side of the “secret” war in Laos, try to claim their own piece of the American dream, while a search for history and identity by American refugee advocate Ka Ying and artist Cy Thao leads the film back to the past they all share.
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Independent Television Service (ITVS), San Francisco, California—ITVS is the private, not-for-profit organization created in 1991 to serve as the independent production service that CPB is directed by statute to fund as a re-granting organization, fostering the development of independent producers and production organizations.