Refuge After War

7:00pm

Join KCTS 9 and Crosscut for a screening of the new documentary series, Crosscut Origins: Refuge After War, followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, Thanh Tan, and key characters, hosted by KCTS 9 Director of Videography Sarah Menzies. This special event is the debut of the series and chance to look behind the curtain at how the project came together.

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Refuge After War examines the experiences of Vietnamese and Afghan refugees forced to flee and resettle in Washington state after the falls of Saigon in 1975 and Kabul in 2021. Through the eyes of director Thanh Tan, a daughter of refugees, this series is a personal examination of the power, the trauma and the challenges of refugee resettlement in the 21st century—and a reflection of America’s ongoing failure to learn from the past.

MEET THE FILMMAKER

Thanh Tan an Emmy® award-winning multimedia storyteller, senior writer (Starbucks Stories), independent filmmaker, and creator/host of Second Wave, a groundbreaking podcast from PRX and KUOW tracing the experiences of Vietnamese refugees after the war ended in 1975. Her work has been featured in This American Life, The Seattle Times, and The New York Times.

From 2016 through 2020, she traveled to six continents, producing, reporting and explaining the broad impact of technology on global societies through more than 50 original video stories for Microsoft Public Affairs. In 2020, she co-founded Viet Fact Check, a bilingual website that provides fact-checked articles in Vietnamese and English. Immediately following the fall of Kabul in August 2021, she helped to co-found Viets for Afghans, a Vietnamese-led volunteer coalition that's mobilizing communities to help Afghan refugees.