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Unlike past films about Agent Orange, A
Permanent Mark:
Agent Orange in America and Vietnam integrates two
sides of this tale — the story of the Americans exposed to
the toxic herbicide while serving in the Vietnam War as well as
the story of the Vietnamese people still contending with the fallout
from Agent Orange’s application. A Permanent Mark features
a stylish, edgy look that combines new and archival footage, rotoscoping
to create cartoons from real images, and traditional animation
with a bold graphic comic-book style. In addition, the film’s
soundtrack of original and vintage music serves as a thread binding
together the visual presentation. A Permanent Mark exposes
a tragic episode of U.S. and Vietnamese history through real people
who paid the price for our nation’s policies, demonstrating
the complexity and persistence of two different sides of the Agent
Orange story. A Permanent Mark is a 90-minute documentary
for national public television broadcast produced and directed
by Holly Million. Chris Million is the director of photography
for A Permanent Mark. |
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