Directed by Washington, D.C.-based filmmaker Noel Izon and co-produced and co-written by Honolulu's Stephanie Castillo, the documentary chronicles the struggles and achievements of Filipinos in the U.S. in the last century. This is Castillo's sixth documentary to be shown at HIFF.

Through intimate portraits of Filipino-Americans the film tells stories of the century-long struggles of Filipinos to make America their home.

Among those featured are prominent Filipino-Americans such as businesswoman and community leader Loida Nicolas Lewis of Best Foods, Inc; U.S. Army Major General Antonio Taguba of Abu Ghraib fame; and former special assistant to President Clinton in economics and trade, Maria Mabilangan Haley.

For Izon and Castillo, the film represents a continued effort to bring Filipino American history into the spotlight. Their film "An Untold Triumph: The Story of the 1st and Second Infantry, U.S. Army" won the 2003 Audience Award at HIFF and has been showing for the last two years on PBS prime time during Memorial Day weekend.

The pair have known each other since the mid-1960s, when they met in Manila as high school students.