Cambodian Doughnut Dreams
- Directed by
- Davis, Charles, American, ca. born 1946
- Produced by
- Davis, Charles, American, ca. born 1946
- Subject of
- Hing, Leng, Cambodian American
- Men, Bunna, Cambodian American
- Kimpau, Sokkun, Cambodian American
- Owned by
- D.C. Public Library, American, founded 1896
- Date
- 1989
- Medium
- polyester film
- Dimensions
- Duration: 25 Minutes
- Length (Film): 900 Feet
- Caption
- 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.
- Description
- A documentary film with the title Cambodian Doughnut Dreams. It consists of a single reel of color 16mm polyester film with optical sound.
- 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 used
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- Place filmed
- Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Cambodia, Asia
- Collection title
- DC Public Library Film Collection
- Classification
- Time-based Media - Moving Images
- Type
- documentaries
- sound films
- color films (visual works)
- short subjects
- 16mm (photographic film size)
- Topic
- Communities
- Documentary films
- Families
- Film
- Foodways
- Immigration
- Labor
- Migrations
- Urban life
- Violence
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2017.55.89.1a
- Restrictions & Rights
- Restrictions likely apply. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.