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

David Siev

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

Filmmaker, Journalist

Rob Lemkin

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

Filmmaker, Oral historian

Socheata Poeuv

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

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This page was last edited on 2 October 2026, at 01:35.