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Dear Programmers,

I'm excited to be working with Tim Tsai in booking his amazing film Seadrift around the country. I had the opportunity to see it at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, and suffice to say I was really knocked out (as was the sold out audience). Let me know if I can send a screening link!

Marc Mauceri
212-243-0600 x20 | marcm@firstrunfeatures.com
 
SEADRIFT
A documentary by Tim Tsai
69 minutes, color, 2019

In 1979, a Vietnamese refugee shoots and kills a white crab fisherman at the public town docks in Seadrift, TX. What began as a dispute over fishing territory erupts into violence and ignites a maelstrom of boat burnings, KKK intimidation, and other hostilities against refugees along the Gulf Coast.

Taking place after the Fall of Saigon, when hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese nationals desperately fled the communist takeover of their home country, Seadrift examines the events leading up to the shooting and its dramatic aftermath, revealing the unexpected consequences that continue to reverberate today.

Slamdance 2019 World Premiere
Dallas International Film Festival Best Historical Film
LA Asian Pacific Film Festival Grand Jury Award, North American Documentary
Austin Asian American Film Festival Audience Award, Best Feature Documentary
Houston AAPI Film Festival Judge's Award, Best Feature Documentary
Viet Film Fest Spotlight Award
Indie & Foreign Film Festival Best Feature Documentary
Boston Asian American Film Festival Audience Award, Best Feature Documentary
Rockport Film Festival Best Feature Documentary
Seattle Asian American Film Festival 2020 Opening Night Film
"Riveting."  - Houston Chronicle
"Tsai deftly coaxes stories from white and Vietnamese residents alike, teasing out themes of nationalism and unexpected forgiveness. Though the film deals with an isolated incident in a tiny town that occurred 40 years ago, this story feels at once immediately salient and universal, as if an insightful fable for our own troubling times."
- Chicago Reader

 
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For screening links and more information please contact Marc Mauceri

212-243-0600 ext. 20 |  marcm@firstrunfeatures.com


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