Cambodian Doughnut Dreams

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A documentary film with the title Cambodian Doughnut Dreams. It consists of a single reel of color 16mm polyester film with optical sound. The documentary follows refugees who fled their homeland during the Cambodian Civil War and found themselves a decade later working in three Los Angeles doughnut shops. The refugees, a medical student trying to fulfill her dead father’s dream, a former resistance fighter, and a widowed mother of two teenaged sons, discuss their experiences during the war as well as their hopes as American residents.

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