<I>Cambodian Doughnut Dreams</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1989
name: label: Directed by
content: Charles Davis, American, ca. born 1946
label: Produced by
content: Charles Davis, American, ca. born 1946
label: Subject of
content: Leng Hing, Cambodian American
label: Subject of
content: Bunna Men, Cambodian American
label: Subject of
content: Sokkun Kimpau, Cambodian American
label: Owned by
content: D.C. Public Library, American, founded 1896
notes: label: Caption
content: This film was a part of the Washington D.C. Public Library's circulating 16mm film collection housed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library. The collection is particularly noted for the wide variety of African American and African diaspora content.
label: Description
content: A documentary film with the title Cambodian Doughnut Dreams. It consists of a single reel of color 16mm polyester film with optical sound.
label: Description
content: The documentary follows refugees who fled their homeland during the Cambodian Civil War and found themselves a decade later working in three Los Angeles doughnut shops. The refugees, a medical student trying to fulfill her dead father’s dream, a former resistance fighter, and a widowed mother of two teenaged sons, discuss their experiences during the war as well as their hopes as American residents.
place: label: Place used
content: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
label: Place filmed
content: Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
label: Place depicted
content: Cambodia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Communities
label: Topic
content: Documentary films
label: Topic
content: Families
label: Topic
content: Film
label: Topic
content: Foodways
label: Topic
content: Immigration
label: Topic
content: Labor
label: Topic
content: Migrations
label: Topic
content: Urban life
label: Topic
content: Violence
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: DC Public Library Film Collection
label: Classification
content: Time-based Media - Moving Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Transferred from the DC Public Library
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2017.55.89.1a
objectType: label: Type
content: documentaries
label: Type
content: sound films
label: Type
content: color films (visual works)
label: Type
content: short subjects
label: Type
content: 16mm (photographic film size)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Restrictions likely apply. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: polyester film
label: Dimensions
content: Duration: 25 Minutes
label: Dimensions
content: Length (Film): 900 Feet