Burning Bayou

By: Derek Nguyen
  • Summary

  • Burning Bayou is a narrative crime mystery series about the epic hunt for the killer of two teen boys in a fishing community ripped apart by a race war between newly-arrived Vietnamese refugees and local fishing laborers. Set outside New Orleans in the '80s, the podcast follows Cheryl Carter, a rookie FBI agent and Vietnamese adoptee to a white American family, and her partner Mac Watson, a Black special agent and a Vietnam War veteran, as they investigate this volatile case that changes the lives of everyone in the Gulf town... including their own. | Written & Directed by Derek Nguyen | Starring Chantal Thuy, Keir Thirus, Tom Dang , Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Eileen Fogarty, Kane Lieu, Steve J. Palmer, Jeff Pride, and Jean-Michel Richaud | Produced by Starfish Accelerator and Wolf at the Door Studios.
    2022-2027 Burning Bayou
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Episodes
  • Pilot
    Feb 1 2022

    Executive Produced by Winnie Kemp, Toby Lawless, and Derek Nguyen

    Produced by Toby Lawless

    Sound Director is Alex Kemp

    Sound Design by Ruge Sun

    Original Score by Christopher Kemp

    Mixing by Alex Kemp

    Edited by Ruge Sun

    Special thanks to Alesia Weston, Mahyad Tousi, Nina Spensley, Keith Joseph Adkins, Michelle Sugihara, Alicia Van Couvering, and Jeff Yang.

    Burning Bayou is a project of the Starfish Accelerator, made possible with the generous support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s Building Bridges Program, the Miranda Family Fund, and Pop Culture Collaborative’s Becoming America Fund.

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    40 mins
  • Teaser
    Jan 14 2022

    Burning Bayou

    Written & Directed by Derek Nguyen

    A production of the Starfish Accelerator and Wolf at the Door Studios

    Starring Chantal Thuy, Keir Thirus, Tom Dang , Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Eileen Fogarty, Kane Lieu, Steve Palmer, Jeff Pride, and Jean-Michel Richaud

    Executive Produced by Winnie Kemp, Toby Lawless, and Derek Nguyen

    Produced by Toby Lawless

    Sound Director is Alex Kemp

    Sound Design by Ruge Sun

    Original Score by Christopher Kemp

    Mixing by Alex Kemp

    Edited by Ruge Sun

     

    Special thanks to Alesia Weston, Mahyad Tousi, Nina Spensley, Keith Joseph Adkins, Michelle Sugihara, Alicia Van Couvering, and Jeff Yang.

     

    Burning Bayou is a project of the Starfish Accelerator, made possible with the generous support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s Building Bridges Program, the Miranda Family Fund, and Pop Culture Collaborative’s Becoming America Fund. 

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    2 mins

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