Article By Karen Gilmore
The National Geographic All Roads seed grant film "Bolinao 52" has won two regional Emmys in Northern California competition -- one for best News and Program Speciality for a Documentary and another for Best Musical Composition and Arrangement in the Craft Achievement category.
The Emmys were presented Saturday at an awards ceremony in San Francisco.
"Bolinao 52" received an All Roads seed grant in 2006 and was featured in the 2007 All Roads Film Festival. Duc Nguyen wrote, directed and co-produced the film along with Joanne Shen.
The film is the story of 100 Vietnamese people who boarded a wooden boat on a moonless summer night in 1988. Their plan was to leave Vietnam and find asylum in another country, but their mission was interrupted, and they drifted 37 days. When their boat was found by Filipino fishermen, only 52 had survived.
Congratulations Duc Nguyen and the entire cast and crew of "Bolinao 52!!"
