2021 Doc Series | The Donut King Talkback (TIFF, Indie Lens Pop-Up, PBS)

Directed by Alice Gu

Description: The Donut King is Ted Ngoy's rags to riches story of a refugee escaping Cambodia, arriving in America in 1975, and building an unlikely multimillion-dollar empire baking America’s favorite pastry, the donut. Ngoy sponsored hundreds of visas for incoming refugees and helped them get on their feet teaching them the ways of the donut business. By 1979, he was living the American Dream—but a great rise often comes with a great fall.

Talkback with Snehal Batra, Esq. - Managing Attorney, Raritan office of NPZ Law Group, PC; Karen Monken - HIAS Director of Pre-Arrival & Initial Resettlement, U.S. Programs; Ayda Zugay – Refugees International, Refugee Leader | Moderated by David Bland - TIFF Committee Member

Sponsored by Teaneck Chamber of Commerce; Nachman, Phulwani, Zimovcak (NPZ) Law Group in memory of Michael Phulwani, Esq. & Walter Distler; A fan of TIFF and donuts; HIAS; Jewish Standard