Film Screening and Author Panel: Heaven & Earth
Sat, Nov 18
|Saigon Grand Center
Based on the bestselling memoirs by Le Ly Hayslip, the biographical 1993 film Heaven & Earth (directed by Oliver Stone) remains relevant to this day. The film tells the powerful and deeply moving story of one woman’s journey from a child of war to starting over https://givebutter.com/GVFNov2023Panel
Time & Location
Nov 18, 2023, 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM
Saigon Grand Center, 16149 Brookhurst St, Fountain Valley, CA 92708, USA
About the event
Global Village Foundation invites you to join us for a two-part program on Vietnam past and present day.
Film Screening - 9:00AM-12:00PM
Based on the bestselling memoirs by Le Ly Hayslip, the biographical 1993 film Heaven & Earth (directed by Oliver Stone) remains relevant to this day. The film tells the powerful and deeply moving story of one woman’s journey from a child of war to starting over again as an immigrant in America to returning to Vietnam after decades away.
After the movie, stay for the Q&A panel with the cast and crew.
About the film
Heaven & Earth is a 1993 American biopic written and directed by Oliver Stone, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor, Joan Chen, and Hiep Thi Le. It is the third film in Stone's Vietnam War trilogy, following Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). Stone expressed the need to…