Press Release
April 28, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                
Contact:         Ysa Le, Executive Director
                        E-mail: ysadle@yahoo.com
                        Telephone: (714) 914-2260
             

VAALA Collaborates with Bowers Museum
To Present
Viet Film Wave Series
Screening of Award-Winning Buffalo Boy on Sunday, May 4 
www.vaala.org & www.bowers.org

Santa Ana, Calif. - The Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) and Bowers Museum present The Viet Film Wave, a compelling three-film series and symposium with the filmmakers.  The last of the three-film series will be held on Sunday, May 4 at 3:30 p.m. with the screening of BUFFALO BOY.  Admission for the screening is $10 general and $8 for Bowers Museum’s members.  Q & A with the filmmaker, Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo, will follow the screening.  The Viet Film Wave Symposium with an opening reception will be held on Friday, May 9 at 7:30 p.m.  Admission for the symposium is $5.

The film screening and the symposium will be held in the gorgeous Norma Kershaw Auditorium at Bowers Museum, 2002 N. Main St, Santa Ana, CA 92706, Telephone: (714) 567-3695.  Tickets will be available at the door. 

            Buffalo Boy is a powerful coming-of-age story set in rural 1940s Vietnam. A young man from a poor family is sent by his father to find grass for their two starving buffalos. Before long, the young man takes up with a rough and dangerous band of buffalo herders and discovers freedom, adventure and love—but also secrets about his past that will change his life forever. 

The Viet Film Wave Symposium is a culmination of the Viet Film Wave film series. This special evening brings directors Stephane Gauger (Owl and the Sparrow), Ham Tran (Journey from the Fall), Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo (Buffalo Boy) and some of the films’ cast members for a time of dialogue, discussion and shared responses to the three films screened at the Bowers. The museum will host a reception at 7:30 p.m., prior to the symposium.