BOLINAO 52 Footage on Calisphere

The entire collection of recorded video footage during the production of the film is donated to the University of California, Irvine for research and further understanding of the Vietnamese refugee experience. This collection is now available on Calisphere, the University of California archive. It includes raw video footage used in the creation of the Emmy-winning documentary, Bolinao 52, interviews with Tung Trinh, Bolinao 52 survivor. Duc Nguyen also interviewed Lam Phan (Tung Trinh's son), William E. Cloonan (witness aboard the USS Dubuque), and Carlos Cagusaan (fisherman and rescuer). Transcriptions are included.

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DISCUSSION GUIDE

BOLINAO 52 Discussion Guide provides additional information for educators and students to engage in a variety of ways and settings. The film can be used to explore the following themes:
-The Vietnamese American experience – especially through the personal stories of refugees
-The experience of displacement and resettlement
-The formidable ordeal of boat people and the struggles they endured physically and psychologically
-The principles of asylum and international responsibility
-The history of Vietnam and the upheavals in Indochina after the fall of Saigon
-Refugee resettlement and community-building
-The role of international communities in building peace, refugee treatment and durable solutions dealing with the root cause of refugees

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Letter Home from Bolinao 52 Survivor

A hand-written letter from a Bolinao 52 survivor to her mother in 1988 with the details from her trip after she was rescued to the Philippines. (Translated from Vietnamese to English)

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The BOLINAO Affair
A Case Study of USS Dubuque (LPD-8)

The Bolinao 52 story was used by the U.S. Navy in Navy Science 203: Navigation and Naval Operation I

Tung Trinh Gave Plaque to Bolinao Mayor

In 2005, while filming in Bolinao, Bolinao 52 survivor and Filmmaker Duc Nguyen visited Bolinao Townhall with Bolinao Mayor, Alfonse Celeste, MD and rescuer Caloy Cagusaan to give them a plague thanking the people of Bolinao.