We Were the Scenery

We Were the Scenery
Canada United States
2025
Documentary
14 min.

Director | Christopher Radcliff
Script | Cathy Linh Che
Director of photography | Jess X. Snow
Editing | Christopher Radcliff
Sound designer | Haina Zhou, Mackie Mallison
Composer | Eliot Leigh
Main cast |
Hoa Thị Lê Chế, Huệ Nguyên Chế
Producers | Cathy Linh Che, Jess X. Snow

The story of Hoa Thi Le and Hue Nguyen Che, who, in 1975, after fleeing the Vietnam War by boat and docking in the Philippines, were utilized as background extras in the filming of APOCALYPSE NOW.

 

About the director: 

Christopher Radcliff is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has screened at festivals worldwide and online via Criterion, Short of the Week, and Lé Cinema Club. His latest film WE WERE THE SCENERY received the Short Film Jury Award for Nonfiction at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.