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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29 creators

Filmmaker

Alice Gu

Alice Gu is a director and cinematographer who made The Donut King, about Cambodian refugee doughnut entrepreneurs in California.

Filmmaker

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is a filmmaker and actor who directed the Khmer-language feature First They Killed My Father.

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

David Siev

Filmmaker whose documentary Bad Axe and short film Year Zero screened at the Cambodia Town Film Festival.

Filmmaker

Davy Chou ដេវី ជូ

France

Davy Chou is a Cambodian-French director and producer whose films include the documentary Golden Slumbers and the feature Diamond Island.

Filmmaker

Denis Do

France

Denis Do is a French animation director whose first feature, Funan, is set during the Khmer Rouge period.

Filmmaker

Huy Yaleng

Cambodia

Cambodian director, producer and actor whose films The Witch and Fathers screened at the Cambodia Town Film Festival.

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

Jimmy Henderson

Cambodia

Jimmy Henderson is a director based in Cambodia who makes action and genre features, including Jailbreak.

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

Kavich Neang

Cambodia

Kavich Neang is a Cambodian director whose documentary and fiction films centre on Phnom Penh's demolished White Building.

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Kulikar Sotho

Cambodia

Kulikar Sotho is a Cambodian director and producer who leads Hanuman Films and directed The Last Reel.

Filmmaker

Lucas Sénécaut

France

Lucas Sénécaut is a French director and producer who co-founded L'Oeil Vif Productions and co-directed Khmerica.

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.

Author, Filmmaker

Rithy Panh ប៉ាន់ រិទ្ធី

Cambodia

Rithy Panh is a Cambodian director, producer and author whose documentaries and features address the Khmer Rouge period and its aftermath.

Filmmaker, Journalist

Rob Lemkin

Rob Lemkin is a British documentary director and producer who co-directed Enemies of the People with Thet Sambath.

Filmmaker

Robert H. Lieberman

United States

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

Filmmaker

Roland Joffé

Malta

Roland Joffé is a British film and television director who directed The Killing Fields.

Filmmaker, Oral historian

Socheata Poeuv

Socheata Poeuv is a documentary director and founder of the oral-history project Khmer Legacies.

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