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Antonio LeBlanc is a Korean-American adoptee living outside New Orleans with his pregnant wife Kathy and her daughter Jessie. Due to his criminal record, Antonio is unable to find additional employment to support his family, though Kathy offers to resume working to help make ends meet.
Sep 18, 2021 · Justin Chon's film "Blue Bayou" is an undertold immigration story, the potential plight of thousands of people who were legally adopted as children from overseas before 2001, when they were not...
Sep 17, 2021 · Soon after that film opened, production began on “Blue Bayou,” the story of Antonio LeBlanc, a New Orleans man (played by Chon himself) adopted from South Korea by a white American couple as...
Sep 15, 2021 · “Blue Bayou” tells the harrowing story of an American we rarely see in film. Justin Chon ’s Antonio LeBlanc, a Korean adoptee living in Louisiana, faces deportation to a country he doesn’t know after an altercation with a police officer.
Sep 17, 2021 · Asian American filmmaker Justin Chon’s latest film – Blue Bayou – opens today in theatres nationwide. Blue Bayou tells the story of Korean American adoptee Antonio LeBlanc as he faces a deportation order by ICE that threatens to rip apart his family and expel him from the only home he has ever known. Earlier this week, I had a chance to ...
Sep 17, 2021 · 4 min read. The opening sequence of “Blue Bayou” is devastating in its simplicity. Antonio LeBlanc (Justin Chon, who wrote and directed the film as well) sits in a job interview. The voice offscreen asks him where he’s from. Antonio says a little north of New Orleans.
Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander) and step-dad to their beloved daughter...
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