Arts and media

Creators

Khmer and Cambodian diaspora writers, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, chefs and artists.

Watercolor of an artist studio with an easel, a film camera, a chapei lute and a typewriter
Illustration inspired by an arts school in Battambang.

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Loung Ung

A Cambodian American memoirist and activist whose trilogy traces survival under the Khmer Rouge and life afterward in the United States.

Chef Nak

A Cambodian chef and culinary author who documents Khmer home and royal cooking.

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10 creators

Filmmaker

Caylee So

United States

Caylee So is a Khmer American director and co-founder of the Cambodia Town Film Festival in Long Beach, California.

Filmmaker

David Grabias

United States

David Grabias is a Los Angeles-based documentary director who co-directed Sentenced Home, about Cambodian American deportees.

Filmmaker, Journalist

Janet Gardner

United States

Janet Gardner is a documentary director and producer whose films include Dancing Through Death, about Cambodian classical dance.

Filmmaker

John Pirozzi

United States

John Pirozzi is an American filmmaker and cinematographer who directed two documentaries about Cambodian popular music.

Educator, Filmmaker

Julie Mallozzi

United States

Julie Mallozzi is a Boston-based documentary filmmaker and teacher who directed Monkey Dance.

Filmmaker

Kalyanee Mam

United States

Cambodian American filmmaker and CTFF committee member whose documentary A River Changes Course screened at the first Cambodia Town Film Festival.

Filmmaker

Masahiro Sugano

United States

Masahiro Sugano is a filmmaker who works through the media lab Studio Revolt and directed the documentary Cambodian Son.

Filmmaker

Nicole Newnham

United States

Nicole Newnham is an American documentary director and producer who co-directed Sentenced Home.

Filmmaker, Musician

praCh Ly

United States

praCh Ly is a Khmer American rapper and producer who co-founded the Cambodia Town Film Festival.

Filmmaker

Robert H. Lieberman

United States

Robert H. Lieberman is a documentary director and novelist who made the Cambodia portrait film Angkor Awakens.

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