Tony Le-Nguyen's Reel

A short documentary about going to High school for the first time produced with students at Braybrook Secondary College in 1998

Tony Le-Nguyen (Tony Lee) as Tiger in Geoffrey Wright Romper Stomper, starring Russell Crowe, Daniel Pollock & Jacqueline McKenzie. Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity?

Worlds Apart is a story about a family in crisis. It focuses on the conflict between two young Vietnamese Australians and their parents. As their children turn eagerly towards all that a new culture has to offer them, their parents retreat back towards the values that have always supported them in the past. Thuy, has left the family home after an argument. He has left school and has been living where he can, on the streets or with friends. During this time he has been using drugs and is now...