First American Film Shot in Vietnam Wins Sundance Award
by Peggy Lore
Independent filmmaker Tony Bui's "Three Seasons" has won the 1999 Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award as best dramatic film. Noted actor, Harvey Keitel is the executive producer and also stars in this first American film to be shot in Vietnam since the war.

"Three Seasons" is about an American GI who returns to Vietnam in search of his daughter. This is a story about the aftermath of war from the Vietnamese perspective.

Bui, the film's director/writer was born in Vietnam and came to the U.S. in 1975. He has visited Vietnam serveral times. As a part of a senior film thesis at Loyola Marymount University, Bui went to Vietnam to film "Yellow Lotus". "The Kiss" and "Fishing for Father" are two of his other films.