Shorts

We Were The Scenery

US •

2025 •

14 mins

Two Vietnam refugees who were enlisted as background extras during the shooting of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now provide commentary of their unusual experience while viewing clips of the film.

Winner of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Jury Award for Non-Fiction

Director/s

Christopher Robert Radcliff

CHRISTOPHER RADCLIFF is an award-winning mixed Chinese American filmmaker based in New York City. His first feature film The Strange Ones (2018) was named by John Waters as one of the top 10 films of the year. His latest project, the short film We Were the Scenery, premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the Short Film Jury Award for Non-Fiction.

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COUNTRY

YEAR

2025

RUNTIME

14 minutes

DIRECTOR/S

Christopher Robert Radcliff

PRODUCER

Cathy Linh Che, Jess X. Snow

WRITER

Cathy Linh Che

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Jess X. Snow

EDITOR

Christopher Radcliff

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