Best Documentary Feature

THE BETRAYAL (NERAKHOON)

THE BETRAYAL (NERAKHOON)

Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath
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ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY

These are the first Academy Award nominations for Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath.

FILM SYNOPSIS

The life of Laotian immigrant Thavisouk Phrasavath serves as a metaphor for the far-reaching repercussions that are still felt from America's involvement in the Vietnam War. When his family suffered persecution following the U.S. withdrawal from Southeast Asia as a result of his father's work for the CIA, Phrasavath's mother fled with eight of her ten children to a life of poverty in Brooklyn.
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