‘Seadrift’ is a Documentary About Migrants and Racial Strife in the ’70s – and It Couldn’t Be More Timely
Posted on Thursday, July 4th, 2019 by Caroline Cao
The documentary Seadrift was in the making before Donald Trump’s presidency spread the wildfire of xenophobia and racism throughout the USA. But the 2016 election made it hard for director Tim Tsai to unsee the nearly word-for-word similarities between the archival footage of KKK rallying against the Seadrift Vietnamese refugee community and the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite The Right” rally.
