In TheSame Boat
Vincent's Photographs - 1979
In The Same Boat - 1979
Nam's English Journal - 1984
Paris Reunion (Project)
About Us | In Retrospect
Acknowledgment
Contact | Comments
Introduction
Foreword
34-Year Facebook Connection - 2013
Photographs by Vincent Leduc ©1979
Story & Website Design by Nam Nguyen ©2017
LANGUAGE
38-Year Reunion with Gary Ferguson - 2017

My Singapore Misadventure, 1979

In The Same Boat

>Learn HOW MY STORY WAS DISCOVERED BY PBS
Hello everyone,
It's been about twenty months since I created this website to share my story and Vincent Leduc’s photographic work.
I have wonderful news to share with you: a film studio from London (Blink Films) contacted me in October 2016 and expressed interest in my story. They wanted to produce a documentary about my search for Gary Ferguson, the “Crazy American Cowboy”, the subject in my story on my website. I was also thrilled to learn that Ann Curry would be interviewing me in the movie. If that was not awesome enough, my film would be shown on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) as part of a six-episode special documentary series called We’ll Meet Again. It is scheduled to air starting on January 23, 2018.
I am very excited and grateful for this opportunity to share my story on PBS, a network that I trust and respect. My story will be featured on the Third Episode/Lost Children of Vietnam on Tuesday, February 6, 2018, at 8pm.
In anticipation for this special event, I have created this new page to showcase my documentary by Blink Films/PBS along with related promotional materials. I will also share some of my own behind-the-scene photos/videos soon after the PBS broadcast.
So, what does this crazy, wonderful, and unexpected event mean for the Paris Reunion Project?
Well, at the very least, I hope this film will spread my story along with Vincent Leduc’s powerful photographs of the Vietnamese boat refugees to a broader audience. This helps fulfill my initial goal: to share my story with people around the world.
I still yearn traveling to Paris to meet Vincent in person. It would be another chapter of my story. It’s one of my dreams. And I believe in dreams.
Happy New Year!
– Nam Nguyen, December 31, 2017.

"The war in Vietnam may have ended in 1975, but its impact lingers in countless lives today ... Nam hopes to find Gary, the Texas cowboy he met almost forty years ago as a 12-year-old refugee and who inspired his dream of coming to America." – PBS

>About Vietnamese-Subtitle Version
Vietnamese Subtitles by Nam Nguyen
WE’LL MEET AGAIN
Lost Children of Vietnam
Nam’s Story (28 minutes)
– PBS/Ann Curry/Blink Films
Hello everyone. I translated and added the Vietnamese subtitles into my documentary for millions of Vietnamese viewers, including my mom and my family in Vietnam. The film is about half an hour long, but when translated into Vietnamese and at the same time editing the film's software, it requires a lot of time. I spent nearly three weeks with about several dozens hours and many late nights. If you think I am crazy, you are not wrong. I am doing this because I love life, in the present as well as the future. But the past is the strength of my soul. I hope my children, family, relatives, and anyone else will be able to find a worthwhile spiritual lesson, mostly to love life everyday, every hour. Life is beautiful and very short. I dream that my mom is healthy and able to watch this movie and understand a small part of my past. Because this is also her story.

CHÚNG TA SẼ GẶP LẠI
Những Đứa Con Lạc Lõng Cũa Việt Nam
Chuyện Của Nam (28 phút)
– PBS/Ann Curry/Blink Films
Xin chào cả nhà. Tôi mới dịch sang phụ đề tiếng Việt vào phim cho người Việt xem đọc, trong đó me, gia đình tôi bên Việt Nam. Tuy phim dài khoảng nửa tiếng đồng hồ nhưng khi dịch sang tiếng Việt và đồng thời chỉnh sửa phần mềm của bộ phim, nó đòi hỏi rất nhiều thời gian. Tôi đã làm gần ba tuần qua với khoảng mấy chục tiếng đồng hồ và nhiều đêm thức khuya. Nếu ai nói tôi điên thì điều đó không sai. Nhưng những gì tôi làm chỉ vì lý do tôi rất yêu cuộc sống hiện tại cũng như rất quý trọng cho tương lai. Nhưng quá khứ là những sức mạnh của tâm hồn tôi. Tôi hy vọng những đứa con của tôi, gia đình, bà con, và bất cứ ai sẽ có thể tìm được một bài học bổ ích về tinh thần, chủ yếu là mình phải yêu cuộc sống hằng ngày, hằng giờ, vì cuộc sống rất là đẹp và rất là ngắn. Điều mơ ước nhỏ của tôi là mẹ tôi luôn mạnh khỏe và có điều kiện xem phim này và hiểu thêm được một góc quá khứ của tôi. Vì câu chuyện này cũng là một câu chuyện nhỏ của mẹ.