The White Silk Dress to support her family and provide for her daughters the áo dàis required to attend school. The film ultimately is a tribute to the strength and heart of the Vietnamese woman, as symbolized through the áo dài. Dan and Gu flee South of Vietnam during the revolutionary of farmer to search for a better place together. The most precious thing that they both own is a while silk ao dai made from Ha Dong silk which Gu gave Dan as wedding gift. The ao dai was found along with Gu when he found placed under the tree. However, they stuck
Dai Sil Kim-Gibson include the Asian American Media Arts Award, the Kodak Filmmaker Award, and CINE Golden Eagle. Dai Sil Kim was born in 1938 in Sincheon, Hwanghae Province, in an area which would later become part of North Korea after the division of the peninsula. Kim's early life coincided with the end of Japanese rule in Korea and World War II. During World War II, Korea was forced to support Japan's military, and 200,000 Korean and Chinese women and girls were forced into sexual slavery and labeled as "comfort women." The history of Korea during this era has been a frequent subject