Aileen O’Meara and Patrick Butler received funding under the Winter 2012 round of the Fund to travel to Vietnam, to make their television documentary, ‘Vietnam Abú’, which focuses on the annual traditional Irish music concerts that are held in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh each year. They plan to use these concerts as a vehicle for discussing disability issues in Vietnem fifty years and three generations after the first spraying of Agent Orange.
Aileen appeared on Morning Edition on RT One last Friday morning to discuss her recent trip with presenter Keelin Shanley, and showed some footage of our travels in the former demilitarized zone in the middle of the country. Skip to 26:45 minutes to watch the interview: http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10108907/