04/29/2025 — Naja Pham Lockwood has a new documentary centered on an iconic Vietnam War photo.

Naja Pham Lockwood sat in a corner of the last South Vietnamese ship to leave Vietnam during the harrowing chaos as Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese.

04/29/2025 — "Khi làm phim Đất lành chim đậu(On healing land, birds perch), tôi nghĩ tôi cũng đã được chữa lành," đạo diễn Naja Pham Lockwood nói với BBC News Tiếng Việt trong cuộc phỏng vấn về phim tài liệu đầu tay của bà - cuốn phim vừa đoạt giải Phim ngắn về phụ nữ hay nhất tại Liên hoan phim quốc tế Cleveland.

04/28/2025 — "Lần đầu tiên tôi nhìn thấy bức ảnh là trên tạp chí Time, bác tôi chỉ cho tôi xem và nói: 'Đây là kẻ đã giết cả gia đình cháu'."
"Lần đầu tiên tôi nhìn thấy bức ảnh là khi tôi đang học lớp 11. Thật khủng khiếp. Đó là cha tôi..."

04/25/2025 — This April marks a half-century since refugees began flooding from Vietnam after the end of the war, making their perilous escape from persecution and violence. In recognition of this anniversary, hundreds of Vietnamese Americans and others are slated to gather on April 26 at Boston College High School in Dorchester for “Remembering Black April: 50 Years of Vietnamese Diaspora.”

04/25/2025 — For Ngoc-Tran Vu, the fall of Saigon, the pivotal event, concluding on April 30, 1975, that finally marked the end of the bloody quagmire that was the Vietnam War, is more than just history.

It’s her family’s story.

04/22/2025 — The festival kicks off Friday with Docs Across Chicago, a series of free screenings, followed by a shorts program at the Gene Siskel Film Center Sunday and the official Doc10 selections at the Davis Theater starting April 30.

04/16/2025 — The documentary film festival celebrates its tenth anniversary with house music, nostalgia, politics, and more.

04/15/2025 — On the 50th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, we are proud to present the Los Angeles Premiere of the acclaimed award-winning ON HEALING LANDS, BIRDS PERCH directed by Naja Pham Lockwood explores two families on both sides of the Vietnam War that are connected through a world-famous photograph.

04/02/2025 — The 25th annual Martha's Vineyard Film Festival graced screens across the Island.

03/27/2025 — In another welcome programming change, 2025 also marks the return of mid-length films, which weren’t included in last year’s festival. A highlight is Naja Pham Lockwood’s 33-minute film On Healing Land, Birds Perch, focused on what happened after Eddie Adams photographed South Vietnamese general Nguyễn Ngọc Loan killing Viet Cong captain Nguyễn Văn Lém in the Pulitzer Prize-winning image “Saigon Execution.”

01/24/2025 — Filmmaker Naja Pham Lockwood has spent her life navigating the echoes of the Vietnam War, a conflict that forced her family to flee their homeland in 1975. Her latest project, On Healing Land, Birds Perch—formerly titled Portraits of a Photo—offers a deeply personal exploration of war’s intergenerational trauma and the paths toward healing.

01/30/2025 — Local filmmaker Naja Pham Lockwood’s short documentary "On Healing Land, Birds Perch" examines the trauma of the Vietnam War through the lens of Eddie Adams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph "Saigon Execution."