Among companies providing productions services to foreign film makers is Bophana Production a Pnomh Phen based company which has been involved in large scale productions and co-productions while producing documentaries on their own. Among most recently produced films serviced by Bophana are SAM SAME BUT DIFFERENT, THE CATCH, EMPIRE OF THE TIGER, and HOLY LOLA (bophanaproduction.com).There is no official censorship in Cambodia yet all scripts need to be approved. According to Cedric Elroy wh...
If this newsletter is not displaying correctly, click here to view it in your browser CAMBOFEST, Cambodia Film Festival: thanks to all supporters ~ seeking contributors for Cambodian youth festival staff training FREEDOM DEAL: Vietnam war-era social issue feature drama reaches milestone - Phase II commences CAMBOFEST, Cambodia The on...
CAMBOFEST: Film and Video Festival of Cambodia, has concluded its 3rd season after resurrecting a Khmer-Rouge era vintage Cambdian cinema house for all screenings - wild adventure with some intrigue! - now tabulating audience choice ballots to determine winners of Grabay Meas ("Golden Buffalo") awards
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CAMBOFEST: Film and Video Festival of Cambodia - Cambodia's international, independent film festival, enters its 3rd season with a lineup of great new movies from around the world (including Cambodia!)
Click here for the current lineup; schedules, maps, and other info TBA: http://www.camerado.com/cambofest_assets/CAMBOFEST_2009.pdf
Movies this year are slated to screen in the colonial coastal & riverside town of Kampot, Cambodia at the vintag...
FW: Urgent: Cambodia's only independent film festival still faces funding shortfall--but supporters are standing up for the cause![Phnom Penh, Cambodia, May 24, 2009]CAMBOFEST, Cambodia's first and only internationally recognizedindependent film festival (now in it's 3rd year) is still facing asignificant funding shortage, three weeks into a Spring/Beginning ofrainy season funding drive. Despite international acclaim and kudosfrom industry professionals as varied as Julie and Roger Corman, thefe...
Director: Guillaume Orignac.
« Khmers islam », a documentary filmed during the Spring of 2008 in Cambodia reveals the merciless repression suffered by muslims under the regime of the Khmer rouge (1975-1979). During those four years, when the entire Cambodian population suffered a ruthless descent into hell, the muslims had been particularly targeted by the Khmer rouge death machine which saw them as « enemy No.1 ».
Last month, on December 4, 2006 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the Audiovisual Resource Center Bophana was inaugurated. A lifelong dream of acclaimed Cambodian film director Rithy Panh, (director of award wining ‘The Khmer Rouge Death Machine’ 2003) president of the Association for the Research, Production and Archiving of Audiovisual documents (ARPAA), the opening of the Bophana archives was, in Mr. Panh’s words, “Symbolic for us – because the Khmer Rouge did not only kill people but they ...