original films by ina adele ray

EL PASO VIETNAM

16mm b&w Short film Running time: 10 min, 
In Texas during the Vietnam War, a smart, sassy, Vietnamese language teacher meets her future husband before he leaves for her hometown, Saigon, as told by her daughter through interviews, old photos, and archival footage.
Upcoming Screening April 25, 2015: 
“40 Years After” (Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Diaspora Vietnamese Artist Network, California College of the Arts)

Previous Screenings & Awards (2002-2012):
2012: - Everynobody's Business: Experiments In Place, Home And Family (NYU) 
2010: - 3 Women: Short Films By Mixed-Race Vietnamese American Filmmakers, Reel Works (Brooklyn, NY)
- Techniques of the Observer Screening Series (Mumbai and Delhi, India) 
2007:  - Immigration and Migration Series at Univ. Texas, Austin 2004:  - Vietnamese Diaspora Film Symposium College of Staten Island - Northeast Historic Film Summer Film Symposium (Bucksport, Maine) - Slant: Bold Asian American Images, Aurora Picture Show (Houston, TX) - Chicago Asian American Showcase - Cinemasia Film Festival (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)  2003: "Asian North American Visual Culture and Racial Representation" (U. of   
Toronto) - Vietnamese International Film Festival (UCLA) - Asian Pacific American Film Festival at the Smithsonian (Washington, DC) - Hirshon Film Festival (NYC) - Rooftop Films (Brooklyn) - Visual Communications Asian Film Festival (Los Angeles) - San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
- Creatively Speaking Harlem Film Festival (New York, NY) 
2002: - Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival - New School Forum at the Backup Film Festival (Berlin, Germany) - San Diego Asian American Film Festival
Awards: “Best of Show Award" at the New School Invitational Student Film Festival - "Documentary Tribute Award" at Mixed Messages 
Ba Ngoai (far left), Ong Ngoai (far right), Adele's sister, Mary Claire (bottom left) and Adele (bottom right) circa 1980. 

ong ba ngoai (Grandfather Grandmother) 

30 min Documentary (Work-in-progress) 
Log line: A filmmaker explores her grandparent’s past that span three wars, three continents, and her family's experience as a Vietnamese disapora living in France and the US.

Synopsis: Mixed-race filmmaker, I. Adele Ray, interviews her Vietnamese grandparent's about their lives in Vietnam during French Colonial rule, during World War II under Japanese occupation, and the Vietnam War Era during U.S. military engagement. She also learns how her grandparents were affected by an unrelated war, the 1967 Six Day Arab-Israeli War, where all their belongings including all family photos from Vietnam were lost on a cargo ship that was trapped in the Suez Canal for 8 years. The film illustrates how larger global conflicts (Cold War & Arab-Israeli War) and French colonial rule affect the lives of middle class Vietnamese people struggling to survive and protect their offspring from the violence of war and the chaos in extreme unstable living conditions. The film is a moving image collage of archival, home movies/videos, super8 re-enactments, and still photos.