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Independent Lens “Village Called Versailles”

Independent Lens “Village Called Versailles”

Credit: Courtesy of Mary Queen of Vietnam Church/ITVS

S. Leo Chiang

San Francisco, California

Tucked away on the eastern edge of New Orleans, a community of Vietnamese refugees has thrived for 30 years in a neighborhood they call Versailles. This film will recount how the residents successfully fought against the opening of a toxic government-imposed landfill after Hurricane Katrina struck and subsequently transformed their neighborhood.