The Donut King

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Biography Documentary hosted by Alice Gu, published by PBS broadcasted as part of PBS Independent Lens series in 2020 - English narration

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Follows the journey of Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy, who arrived in California in 1975 and, through a mixture of diligence and luck, built a multi-million dollar donut empire up and down the West Coast. After Ngoy escaped the brutal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, he eventually was able to start his first donut shop in Orange County, California, and his Christy's Doughnuts became a rapidly expanding chain of success. Over the next decade, Ngoy also sponsored hundreds of visas for incoming Cambodian refugees and offered them steady employment in his donut shops. But after living his version of the American Dream, everything came crashing down for Ngoy. A story of immigration, assimilation, prejudice and who gets access to the American Dream—and what happens when you achieve it. The Donut King is also about how the American Dream gets handed down and evolves from one generation to the next: the film includes the current generation of Cambodian donut shop owners and the ways they have been inspired by and diverged from their parents and grandparents before them.