First-time film-maker TIANA (the Americanization of the name THI THANH NGA) has made a personal documentary tracing her 1988 journey back to Vietnam, where she was born: "From Hollywood to Hanoi." Her father was the head of press relations for the South Vietnamese government, and she enjoyed a priviledged childhood. But her father moved the family to the United States just before the fall of Saigon. TIANA was raised in California from the age of three and became an actress in low-budget exploitation films. One reviewer writes about the film that TIANIA's "puckish humor and eye for incongruity are editorially lethal."
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