WATCH: “Stateless” trailer.
ORANGE COUNTY, California — A documentary film on a group of Vietnamese boat people who spent over 16 years lingering in the Philippines because they refused to be repatriated to Vietnam is available on Comcast’s video-on-demand channel, Cinema Asian America and will also be shown on PBS stations.
“Stateless” is the story of a forgotten group of Vietnamese refugees who spent over 16 years in the Philippines waiting for resettlement. Caught at the low tide of compassion fatigue by the international community, which led to the closure of refugee camps in Southeast Asia in the early 1990s, the refugees found themselves lost with no country to call home.
They remained in the Philippines without legal status, ownership or employment rights and survived on the fringes of society. In 2005, a spark of hope came when US immigration officials returned to Manila to look into their cases. “Stateless” is the tribulation of the unwanted refugees who survived on a glimpse of hope to find a home.
“Stateless” will be available to all Comcast digital cable subscribers with On-Demand for free from April 1 to April 30. Then at the end of April and throughout May, “Stateless” will be shown on PBS stations across the US.
Specifically in the Los Angeles-Orange County market, viewers can watch the film on PBS Socal World, channel 50.4 on Thursday, April 30 at 3:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. On Friday, May 1, the film will air at 7:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. On Monday, May 4, 2015 the film will air at 1 a.m. For more information, visit statelessdocumentary.org.
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