231 - Kirk Van Tran - Adoptee + Director of "Intersections" Docuseries

The Vietnamese with Kenneth Nguyen · Mar 10, 2023 · 1h 7m

Kirk is the Director and Executive Producer for the award winning documentary film series, "Intersections". In 2017, on a whim, Kirk submitted to a DNA test simply to determine his full ethnicity and maybe connect with a distant biological relative. The results led Kirk to discover that his birth mother and birth father were indeed alive and well and that he had brothers and sisters that he didn’t know existed. Kirk also discovered that his birth mother had been searching for him for over 40 years.

In the summer of 1969, during the peak of the Vietnam War, Kirk (Trần Văn Kirk) was…