"We hope this film can be broadcast out to the Vietnamese American community, many of whom, just like our family, lost everything,"
"We're sharing our story with the community here, first,"
"We wanted to find a way to visualize the perils that they had in Vietnam, in the exact places they escaped through,"
David Duong is CEO of Cal Waste Solutions and an Oakland recycling mogul who hauls San Jose's waste. He premiered a documentary he commissioned about his family's riches-to-rags-to-riches journey from Vietnam to the United States. The film, titled "The King of Trash" and directed by Errol Webber, debuted Nov. 13 at the Pruneyard Cinemas in Campbell before friends and family. Duong selected a Santa Clara County theater to honor San Jose's large Vietnamese American community and to share the family's story there first. The hour-long film traces the family's loss of a paper mill, a perilous sea escape after the 1975 Fall of Saigon, capture by a Soviet ship, and time in a Philippine refugee camp. Webber filmed reenactments on location in Vietnam to visualize those perils. Duong continues to promote the family's narrative while confronting legal and political challenges, including an FBI bribery case and personal feuds.
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