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Daughter from Đà Nẵng

 
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Daughter from Đà Nẵng



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Daughter from Đà Nẵng
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Daughter from Đà Nẵng is a 2002 documentary film about an Amerasian, Heidi Bub (a.k.a. Mai Thi Hiep), born on December 10, 1968, in Danang in southern Vietnam, one of the children brought to the United States from Vietnam in 1975 during "Operation Babylift" at the end of the Vietnam War. Heidi's father was an American serviceman, and her mother, Mai Thi Kim, already had three children but was working at an American military base where she met him, after her husband, Do Huu Vinh, had left her to fight with the Viet Cong. When the North Vietnamese army came closer to Danang, Heidi's mother feared for her since there were rumors of threats to mixed-race children, and so she gave up her daughter to the airlift to the United States, leaving her at an orphanage by the Holt Adoption Agency on March 15, 1975, when she was six years old. She subsequently was sent to the United States and was adopted by a single American woman, Ann Neville, and was renamed Heidi. They lived in Columbia, South Carolina, for one year, then finally settling in Pulaski, Tennessee where Heidi spent her life.

Heidi had been distanced from her adopted mother, Ann Neville, for several years, which was part of her prompting to seek her biological mother. While a college student at home for the summer, Neville punished Heidi for coming home ten minutes late after curfew by permanently kicking Heidi out of the house. Heidi was emotionally devastated and remained estranged from her mother.

After some years, Heidi's friend, Brenda Lewis, encouraged her to make a search for her biological Vietnamese mother. In 1991, her biological mother, Mai Thi Kim, had given a letter to an American official in Saigon requesting news of her daughter in America. The letter ultimately reached the Holt Adoption Agency[2] where Heidi found it when she sought out her adoption records. Wanting to meet her biological mother and Vietnamese family, Heidi decided to return to Vietnam for a visit in 1997 – 22 years after being sent away.

Accompanying her for the reunion in Vietnam was journalist Ms. Tran Tuong Nhu, who also served as her liaison on the trip. She was also the first Vietnamese person Heidi had met after leaving Vietnam as a child.

Heidi was now a college graduate and married to an American naval officer, John L. Bub. She had two daughters and was living in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. She had no identity with her Vietnamese heritage and experienced culture shock upon meeting her Vietnamese family.

Heidi was not aware of Vietnamese culture, family obligations, traditions, and expectations. Her family realizes she does not understand their ways, and they also do not understand hers. In one scene, Heidi cries and leaves the room when her Vietnamese family asks for her financial support. This prompts a relative to comment, "she cries a lot, doesn't she?". It was explained to Heidi that it was customary for a relative living in America to help financially support family in Vietnam. Heidi felt she was being exploited and used, and she did not gain the relationship with her family that she had anticipated. At the end of the film, once Heidi is back home, she says the letters she receives from her Vietnamese family always request money, and she isn't ready to reply to them.

This is the crux of the emotional aspect of the documentary film, her being torn yet caught between two distant cultures, on top of having experienced abandonment as a child in Vietnam by her biological mother and estrangement in the United States from her adopted mother.

The film won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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