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Alice Gu
Alice Gu is a director and cinematographer who made The Donut King, about Cambodian refugee doughnut entrepreneurs in California.
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Musician
Amara Goel
Cambodian American classically trained soprano and founder and host of The Threaded Path, a podcast about Cambodian artists and memory.
Filmmaker
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie is a filmmaker and actor who directed the Khmer-language feature First They Killed My Father.
Author, Educator
Anthony Veasna So
Cambodian American fiction writer and essayist whose work portrays Khmer American life in California's Central Valley.
Author, Educator
Bunkong Tuon
Cambodian American poet and novelist who teaches English at Union College.
Author, Educator
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Asian American studies scholar who analysed Cambodian American memory work in film, literature, rap and performance.
Filmmaker
Caylee So
Caylee So is a Khmer American director and co-founder of the Cambodia Town Film Festival in Long Beach, California.
Author
Chanda Ouk Wolf
Cambodian American children's book author whose picture book connects Cambodian American families to the donut-shop trade.
Author, Oral historian
Chanrithy Him
Cambodian American memoirist and speaker who survived the Khmer Rouge period as a child.
Author, Chef
Chantha Nguon
Cambodian memoirist and cook who reconstructs family Khmer recipes alongside an account of exile and return.
Author, Visual artist
Chath pierSath
Cambodian American poet and painter who divides his time between a Massachusetts farm and Cambodia.
Author, Chef
Chef Nak ចុងភៅណាក់
Cambodian chef and culinary author who documents and revives Khmer home and royal cooking.
Author, Educator
Chheng Phon ឆេង ផុន
Cambodian dramatist and educator who rebuilt the country's arts schools and performing arts repertoire after the Khmer Rouge period.
Author, Educator
Christine Su
Southeast Asian studies scholar and editor who founded the Khmer Generations Project and edits and writes books on Khmer diaspora life.
Author, Educator
Christoph Strobel
Historian at the University of Massachusetts Lowell who recorded oral histories of the city's immigrant communities.
Filmmaker
David Grabias
David Grabias is a Los Angeles-based documentary director who co-directed Sentenced Home, about Cambodian American deportees.
Filmmaker
David Siev
Filmmaker whose documentary Bad Axe and short film Year Zero screened at the Cambodia Town Film Festival.
Author, Educator
David Smyth
British scholar of Thai and Cambodian who wrote the Routledge Colloquial Cambodian course.
Filmmaker
Davy Chou ដេវី ជូ
Davy Chou is a Cambodian-French director and producer whose films include the documentary Golden Slumbers and the feature Diamond Island.
Ensemble, Musician
Dengue Fever
Dengue Fever is a Los Angeles band that performs Cambodian rock and pop alongside original songs.
Filmmaker
Denis Do
Denis Do is a French animation director whose first feature, Funan, is set during the Khmer Rouge period.
Journalist, Oral historian
Dith Pran ឌិត ប្រន
Cambodian photojournalist and interpreter who collected and edited survivor testimony from the Khmer Rouge period.
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