Category: Films
-
When in Phnom Penh’s Interview with Insidious’s Leigh Whannell and Lin Shaye
The latest installment of ‘Insidious’ franchise hit Cambodia today, filling theatres with audience’s screams and laughter. ‘Insidious: The last Key’ brings back the ghost hunting trio of Elise, Tucker, and Specs, to where it all started – Elise’s childhood home. In a two-part interview with When in Phnom Penh’s Sotheavy Nou, the writer/creator Leigh…
-
Khmer Stories Spotlighted in Japan
By Sotheavy Nou Tokyo embraced Cambodia’s budding film industry with four of its youngest filmmakers to ever strut the red carpet of the 30th Tokyo International Film Festival(TIFF). Cambodian filmmakers Ly Polen, Sang Chanvisal, Sok Chanrado, and Neang Kavich, were nominated by the legendary Rithy Panh to showcase their short films in a program specially…
-
Pram Ang – not just a movie, but five life experiences
Pram Ang started in 2013, when we failed to produce a short film about a father-son relationship, due to a potential producer’s lack of funding. So Rithea, one of the most active members of Kon Khmer Koun Khmer, proposed to me his own story about a mother-son relationship, with a low budget. The idea was…