Film Chat: Vietnamese Refugee Camps in Penghu

In this podcast, the host, Lara Momesso, interviews the Taiwanese movie director Asio Liu on his most recent movie project on the Vietnamese refugee camps in Penghu. Many of us are familiar with the inexorable flow of Vietnamese boat people right after the end of the war in Vietnam. Though, very few know that some of the Vietnamese boat people landed in Penghu, in the Taiwan Strait, just off the west coast of Taiwan and they ended up living there until they were resettled. The Penghu refugee camps were destroyed at the beginning of the 2000s. By revealing the process of discovering the refugee camps in Penghu and connecting with the refugees who have been there, Asio discusses personal and collective aspects of a phenomenon that brings together global, regional and local issues and which has become the subject of a 20 year-long project.

For those who are interested to know more about this issue, here you can find some links:

• Asio Liu asio.liu@gmail.com
• Instagram: The Chiangmei Refugee Archive (CRAA)
• Facebook: @澎湖難民營三部曲 Penghu Refugee Camps Trilogy at the Taiwan Strait
• Twitter: @CRAA_Chiangmei

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