Sea Of Memory — After the Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, more than a million people fled the communist ruling by boats to the South China Sea. They faced obstacles such as pirate attacks, violent sea storms, thirst and starvation. Many lives were lost. Those that survived the journey immigrated to noncommunist countries around the world. The majority of them found freedom and new life in the United States.  "Sea Of Memory-My Dad’s Boat Journey, 1979" is a story about my unforgettable boat journey for freedom in the South China Sea, taken place 32 years ago. I produced this movie with my 10-year-old son and completed it in April, 2011. The 24-minute documentary contained a large collection of personal documents (immigration papers, letters, photographs, newspaper clips, my artwork and animations) that I have kept since the day I arrived to America at the San Francisco Airport on the Thanksgiving of 1979. Sea Of Memory is a first person narrative like no others. It tells a story about a twelve-year-old teenager who left his whole family and country behind, going on a boat journey with his young cousins. He packed all his belongings, family comfort, and the world as he knew, along with his innocence, into a small carryon bag. He entered a small secret compartment in the bottom of a small river boat, headed into the journey of the unknown. He endured dangerous communist security checkpoints along the Mekong Delta, only met deadly pirate attacks the next day and faced violent sea storms in the darkest night in the South China Sea. Along with 67 people on his boat, he lost everything to the pirates but his life, which was spared by salvation, a ship named “Akuna.” He ended up staying at a refugee camp, a remote island and jungle in Indonesia, and eventually immigrated to America, the land of freedom and opportunity.