Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Nakasako, Spencer
Lum, Debbie
Saeteurn, Kane Ian
Saelio, Nai
Wank, Wendy.
Ahrens, C. Donald
Saeteurn, Muong.
National Asian American Telecommunications Association
Independent Television Service
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| Notes: | Editor, Wendy Wank ; on-line editor, Don Ahrens ; mien translation, Muong Saeteurn.
Video diarists, Kane Ian "Kelly" Saeteurn, Nai "Tony" Saelio.
VHS format.
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| Summary: | Seventeen year-old Kelly Saeteurn has a dream--she calls it her "American dream." As a fresh high school graduate on her way to college she envisions a rosy future for herself, full of exciting opportunities granted by a college education. Kelly is the first in her family of Iu Mien refugees from Laos to have accomplished as much as she already has, but her dreams exist in sharp contrast to her reality. She is also pregnant. Her boyfriend Tony is a junior high drop out and ex-con whom she had met three months earlier at a shopping mall in Oakland, California. The honesty of this film's footage and dialogue offers viewers a rare glimpse into the lives of two young people struggling to make their relationship work in the face of overwhelming obstacles like parenthood, gender, culture and education.
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