394 - What Jennifer Did - Can Parental Pressure Be Blamed For Murder?

The Vietnamese with Kenneth Nguyen

Jeremy Grimaldi, Executive Producer of Netflix’s true-crime documentary What Jennifer Did, is an award-winning author, celebrated for A Daughter’s Deadly Deception: The Jennifer Pan Story. Based in Toronto, he is a seasoned crime reporter and co-founder of the production company Matchpoint Media.

Paul Nguyen is an award-winning activist and filmmaker from Toronto's Jane-Finch area. In 2004, he created Jane-Finch.com to change negative stereotypes about his community. Within a short period, his grassroots project became a national success story.

Paul's impact is recognized by political and community leaders across Canada. He is a public speaker and media commentator on race, crime and youth issues.

In 2006, Paul was the Associate Producer for CBC's The Fifth Estate following the lives of gang-involved youth in the Gemini Award-nominated Lost in the Struggle. He was the Associate Producer for Global's Revealed: Missing the Target (2010), CBC's Lost in the Struggle: The Next Chapter (2012) and CBC's Year of the Gun (2019).

In 2018, he was a recipient of Canada's Volunteer Award. In 2018 and 2019, he won back-to-back CEMA Awards for his stories in the ethnic press. In 2020, CBC Radio aired Rap Battle, an hour-long podcast about the journey of Jane-Finch.com. In 2021, Paul received the Star Metroland Media Urban Hero Award. In 2024, Paul co-produced the Netflix global hit What Jennifer Did.

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Many of you still have the chance to record and preserve the legacies of your own families. I’ve sat with families now for interview sessions to record the rich histories of parents and explore the lives of the generations that preceded them.

Don’t let your family stories go untold! Take a moment to reach out and together we will bring out your family’s story on a recorded journey. - Kenneth Nguyen

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