VIETNAM
Journeying Through Documentary Filmmaking
Making documentaries gave me the opportunity to travel and experience cultures and nations across the globe.
In 1996, I visited Vietnam for the first time, along with an expedition of volunteers to an orphanage in Ho Chi Min City. I discovered a nation still recovering but proud and welcoming, even to Americans.
In 2002, I returned to Vietnam as a member of "Hearts And Minds," a non-profit organization established by nurses that served in Vietnam during the war, to bring medicine and equipment to rural hospitals. The changes in the country as it opened up to western civilization were obvious. Nevertheless, the Vietnamese people were as hospitable and as authentic as ever.
Making documentaries gave me the opportunity to travel and experience cultures and nations across the globe.
In 1996, I visited Vietnam for the first time, along with an expedition of volunteers to an orphanage in Ho Chi Min City. I discovered a nation still recovering but proud and welcoming, even to Americans.
In 2002, I returned to Vietnam as a member of "Hearts And Minds," a non-profit organization established by nurses that served in Vietnam during the war, to bring medicine and equipment to rural hospitals. The changes in the country as it opened up to western civilization were obvious. Nevertheless, the Vietnamese people were as hospitable and as authentic as ever.