Doan Hoang

Đoan Hoàng Curtis, Doan Hoang, Đoan Hoàng or Doan Hoàng Curtis is a Vietnamese-American documentary film director, producer, editor, and writer. Hoàng Curtis produced the Netflix 2025 documentary series Turning Point: The Vietnam War. Hoang Curtis has received awards and grants from the Sundance Institute, ITVS, Center for Asian American Media, On April 30, 1975, she was airlifted on the final civilian helicopter out of Vietnam at the end of the war. When she was nine, she wrote her first book on the Vietnam War. At the age of 12, she made her first documentary The French Revolution.

Hoang Curtis worked as an editor and writer for national magazines, including Details, Saveur, House & Garden, Garden Design, and Spin. She also received funding from the Independent Television Service (ITVS), and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Hoang Curtis premiered Oh, Saigon in March 2007 at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, and received a nomination for Best Documentary. She appeared with Oliver Stone at the 2007 Austin Film Festival. She had her sold-out New York City premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in 2008, where curator William Sloan called the film, "truly strong, human, and brave." Oh, Saigon won the Best Film and Best Feature Documentary at the 42nd Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival in 2008. It also screened at the Vietnam International Film Festival. In 2011 and 2012, as part of the American Documentary Showcase, Hoang took the film to 16 countries, including Spain, Colombia, Zimbabwe and Vietnam. and was a 2022 Firelight Spark Fund recipient. She also received awards and grants from the Sundance Institute and the National Endowment of the Humanities.

Her 2015 film, Scars for Eyes was partly funded by grants from the Asian Women's Giving Circle and the Ms. Foundation.

In addition to French Revolution, Hoang has worked on a number of short films: A Requiem for Vegetables describes "the massacre of vegetables by a scary 1950s homemaker"; Good Morning, Captains features two Gen-Xers that are involved in a car accident; and Agent depicts the impact of a CIA agent's life on his family.

Hoang Curtis is a member of the non-profit film group, Film Fatales. Hoang Curtis was an early board member of V-Day, a top-ranked charity working to end violence towards women using performances of the Vagina Monologues and other works. Hoang Curtis was also a character in The Vagina Monologues play and book.

In 2024–2025, Hoang Curtis was series producer on the Netflix series, Turning Point: The Vietnam War, releasing/released April 30, 2025, In 2002–2006, Hoang had a yoga studio called Om Shanti in Weehawken, New Jersey.

Filmography

Feature films Oh, America: Divided Country (work in progress) Oh, Saigon (2007) The Trail of Ho (2008) Legacy of Denial (2009) Side Man, in post-production Scars For Eyes, in post-production

Short films French Revolution (1984) A Requiem for Vegetables (1993) How Not To Make A Video (1994) Good Morning, Captains (1994) Nuoc (2000) Agent (2002) American Geisha (2011) Hard Times (2012) - co-producer "Addicted to the Internet" by Emily Newhouse (2013 music video) "The Longest Walk" (2024)