Walk into a donut shop in Southern California, and the chances are it’s owned by a Cambodian family. The phenomenon of how that came to be can be traced back to one man, Ted Ngoy, who fled war-torn Cambodia in 1975 and built an unlikely multi-million-dollar empire that even Dunkin couldn’t rival. Exploring both sides of the American dream, director Alice Gu charts how Ted came to be The Donut King, helping hundreds of immigrants get on their feet by teaching them the ways of the trade—only to lose it all along the way. Enlivened by colourful animation and a buoyant electronic score, this delightful doc is a real-life rags-to-riches story told with equal parts sweetness and depth.
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