Ina Fichman, Oscar Nominated Producer of ‘Fire of Love,’ Talks the Future of Hot Docs

variety.com:

Addie Morfoot Contributor Producer Ina Fichman, Oscar nominated for “Fire of Love,” was at the 25th edition of Hot Docs Forum on Tuesday to pitch her latest project “Ba’s Book.” Directed by Canadian filmmaker Ashley Da-Le Duong, the hybrid docu focuses on Duong’s father and his experiences living through both the Vietnam War and the Iranian Revolution. “Let me take you somewhere for a moment,” Duong told the Forum audience and participating distributors including Arte, A24 and Al Jazeera. “It’s 1968 and a young man stands in the middle of a rice paddy field and looks up and sees a helicopter.

Not unusual because his house is right beside an American army base, but this time the helicopter overhead shoots at him and he pretends to be dead.

He vows to leave his village forever. Eventually he does escape. He wins a scholarship to Iran. But his escaping terror is short lived because the Iranian Revolution breaks out and he finds himself stateless and homeless.

This young man is my dad, but he never told me any of these stories until recently. My film explores the legacy of forced displacement and civil war on the fabrics of the community and the family.” Duong told the crowd that the docu, which is in the early stages of development, will use her father’s upcoming memoir as a way into his response to the Vietnam War and the Iranian Revolution.