Special Screenings of The Stringer in US & Europe.
Carl Robinson
The Stringer is now screening at festivals across the US and Europe, ahead of its global release on Netflix on 28 November 2025.
Directed by Bao Nguyen, the documentary revisits the authorship of the iconic “Napalm Girl” photo and the decades of silence surrounding it. It’s a story about memory, myth, and the quiet labour of those who were never credited.
As the VII Foundation puts it:
“A former Saigon photo editor plagued by a 52-year secret courageously makes a stunning admission, setting off a gripping two-year investigation into five decades of buried secrets behind one of the Vietnam War’s most iconic photographs.”
Well, as y'all know, that’s me!
Upcoming screenings include:
Hamptons International Film Festival (New York)
Viet Film Festival (Santa Ana, CA – heart of Little Saigon)
Prix Bayeux Festival for War Correspondents (France)
World Press Photo Exhibition (Vienna)
Santa Fe International Film Festival
GlobeDocs Film Festival (Boston)
The film centres on Nguyen Thanh Nghe, a Vietnamese stringer whose role in capturing one of the war’s most famous images was erased for over 50 years. The VII Foundation calls it “a gripping two-year investigation into buried truths.”