‘Ba’s Book’ Director Uncovers Father’s Secrets Over Vietnam War, Revolutionary Iran Upbringing
Montreal documentary maker Ashley Duong saw her father, Anh Duong, end a lifetime of cold silence over his traumatic upbringing in war-torn Vietnam by publishing a memoir shaped as a series of letters to his daughter. So it wasn’t long before Duong, in her chosen medium, film, adapted her father’s memoir into Ba’s Book, an…