"In an interview with Axios, director Bao Nguyen said he hesitated to take on the project because "Nick Ut is a hero in our community," but ultimately joined "out of respect for journalism's duty to pursue truth" and facts."
""For so long, Vietnamese people were expected to be survivors or victims - not witnesses or authors of our own history," Nguyen said."
""I saw the photo in that moment and just took it," an ailingNghệ tells Knight in Vietnamese in the film."
""I felt upset. I worked hard for it, but that guy got to have it all," Nghệ said."
A documentary revisits the attribution of the 1972 photograph long credited to Associated Press photographer Nick Ut, proposing stringer Nguyễn Thành Nghệ captured the image but never received credit. The film follows journalist Gary Knight searching for Nghệ and interviewing family and former colleagues. Former AP Saigon photo editor Carl Robinson claims Ut did not take the photograph. The AP and Ut dispute the claim and provided testimony recalling Ut's presence at the scene. Nghệ recounts taking the photo, receiving a copy, and later learning it won awards without proof of his authorship.
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