Thao Nguyen is known for her music, and for the band she's led for the past 10 years — Thao and the Get Down Stay Down.
NPR and Paste Magazine picked her last album, "A Man Alive," as one of the best albums of 2016 — and this year, Thao has a movie coming out.
It’s called "Nobody Dies," a documentary of Thao’s travels with her mother, Nhan Nguyen, in Vietnam, by director Todd Krolczyk. This was Thao’s first-ever trip to the country, and Nhan’s first time back since she left as a refugee in 1973.
"It was so incredible to see my mom just so at ease and so confident. She had this swagger, which I had never seen before."
"Nobody Dies" premieres September 7 at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, hosted by the Center For Asian American Media, and will be broadcast on PBS this fall.
