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"Journey to the Fallen Skies": Best Feature Minnesota Made Film
|  | | The Winning Film (Provided by Bryan Vue) |
"Journey to the Fallen Skies" (Taug Lis Yeev Mus Qab Ntuj), a feature film from Bird's Eye-Vue and Hmong Bro's Productions, was one the films featured during the 2012 Minneapolis St. Paul Film Festival. Not only was it featured; it was selected as the winner of the Best Feature MN Made film.
The film is written and directed by Bryan Vue and Mong Vang along with co-producers Wa Yang, who plays Leng. Being that this film incorporates many aspects of the Hmong culture, Phouma Xiong, a graduate of Lawrence University in Far East Studies, is the culture consultant.
This film is mostly about one's soul-searching journey. The team's original idea centered around a Hmong man who is struck with a terminal illness and is dying. It was going to be a simple story where he deals with his illness in a cabin up north. The story line changed after the team received a $15,000 grant from the Gerome Foundation. Vue explained, "We thought it would be more attractive to the Hmong community to have him go back to visit his roots instead of him going to the Northwoods and dying alone." Doing this was also the team's way of taking the audience on a journey.
Leng, a Hmong-American man diagnosed with cancer, decides to return to Laos to pay tribute to his late father whom he never knew. While searching for his personal connection with this father and his own roots, he travels a spiritual world where he encounters his own mortality.
Leng encounters people that help him deal with his own personal, emotional and spiritual struggles. Joua Pao, played by Khais Vang, is the resort caretaker who sees Leng's struggles and begins to nurse his physical health. "Joua Pao also helps him with his emotional dilemma through this very troubling time," Vue explained.
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