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In addition to our productions America's Heartland, California Heartland, Central Valley Chronicles, and California Connected, we are proud of the range of relevant, compelling and diverse programs that we've produced this year.

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Death of a Shaman

Airs nationwide on PBS May 25, 2004

Discover the film that many of our viewers are calling one of the most powerful and moving they have seen on television. A film by Richard Hall & Fahm Saeyang, in conjunction with KVIE, ITVS, and NAATA.

In "Death of a Shaman," Sacramento independent film producer Fahm Saeyang responds to her father's unsettled life and death by taking a reverse journey to examine the heartbreaking path he took from respectability to hopelessness-and from Southeast Asia to America-in a heartfelt personal mission to understand his tragic story.

This dual journey helps "Death of a Shaman" examine with painful honesty how Fahm's Mien immigrant family suffered through a 20-year ordeal of poverty, racism, religions, drugs, jail, and the murder of a family member.

It is a chronicle of a darker side of the pursuit of the American dream that affected many of the 40,000 Mien who came from a primitive life in the mountains of Southeast Asia to America. "Death of a Shaman" is also a moving account of Fahm's need to understand her father's pain, and a desire to figure out what will placate his troubled spirit and her own.

For more information about the film, please click here.

Credits
Director/Writer: Richard Hall
Producer/Writer: Fahm Fong Saeyang

This program premiered on KVIE May 21, 2003.