filmography

:: Behind Stage Curtains
:: Vietnam: The Vu-Tang Clan
:: When I'm Hungry, I Eat. When I'm Tired, I Sleep.

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Behind Stage Curtains

Directed & Produced by: Xuan Vu & Michael Wertlieb
Director of Photography: Michael Wertlieb
Editor: Xuan Vu
Starring: Louise Applegate
TRT: 00:28:41 / Color / Samara Films © 2011

Behind Stage Curtains is a musical narrative documentary that follows a stage
troupe of first through third graders in Brookline, MA, as they prepare for
a major stage production while wrestling with childhood social issues.
When Louise, a deaf child, joins the hearing children in the production,
they learn the values of acceptance, communication, and friendship.

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Vietnam: The Vu-Tang Clan

Directed & Produced by: Xuan Vu
Director of Photography: Xuan Vu
Editor: Xuan Vu
Starring: Tuan-Anh (Andrew) Vu
Approx. Runtime: 15 minutes / Color / Zixin Films © 2006

This independent narrative documentary film follows an 18-year-old
Vietnamese-American boy, Tuan-Anh Vu, through his first visit
to his motherland, Vietnam. Thoroughly Americanized and spoiled,
Tuan-Anh struggles through the first few weeks of traveling, a trip
that his uncles bribed him into. This film documents the change
that occurs in Tuan-Anh as he learns to integrate his American culture
into his experience of Vietnam.

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When I'm Hungry, I Eat. When I'm Tired, I Sleep.

Directed by: Xuan Vu & Josh Weinstein
Director of Photography: Josh Weinstein
Editor: Xuan Vu
Starring: Nicholas Doolittle and Tiffany Reed
Approx. Runtime: 23 minutes / Color / Zixin Films © 2006

This independent narrative documentary film is an ethnographic case study
that focuses on the daily life of two residents of the Cambridge Zen Center,
a lay community of approximately 30 members who practice the Korean Zen
tradition. The film explores the question: 'Is Zen easy or difficult?'

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