Giap's Last Day At The Ironing Board Factory

Giap's Last Day At The Ironing Board Factory

#A short film about a Vietnamese American woman and her son, adapting to life in small town America.


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0h 25m 2015 HD

In 1975, a seven-months pregnant Vietnamese refugee, Giap, escapes Saigon in a boat and, within weeks, finds herself working on an assembly line in Seymour, Indiana. 35 years later, her aspiring filmmaker son, Tony, decides to document her final day of work at the last ironing board factory in America.


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