Director Kieran Darcy-Smith’s debut feature Say Nothing is set to start filming in Sydney this month. Touted as a psychological drama, the film follows four friends on a South East Asian holiday. When only three return home, they are left to figure out what happened to their companion on that fateful night in Cambodia. Darcy-Smith [...]
(Reuters Life!) – Seven years ago a chance encounter with a poor, young girl during a backpacking trip through Cambodia changed the life of Hollywood film executive Scott Neeson. He was on a holiday from his pampered life in California and eating at an outdoor restaurant when a 9-year-old girl came begging for money. The [...]
OVERSEAS Cambodia Investment Corp is investing more than US$3 million to build a new theatre and film centre on Phnom Penh’s Diamond Island – a move that could boost the Kingdom’s struggling entertainment sector. The theatre would be the latest development for the satellite city on Koh Pich, which is set to see an ice [...]
It’s not common for important philanthropic prizes to go to people whose work involves criminal trespass and who make statements like the following: “You never know who’s part of the police and who’s not.” But the TED conference, the California lecture series named for its roots in technology, entertainment and design, said on Tuesday that [...]
DENGUE fever, the disease, does things to your brain and body with headaches and joint pains that make you suffer. Dengue Fever, the band, does things to your brain and body by mixing Cambodian pop music of the 1960s with American psychedelic rock that makes you dance. Although you may have put it in the [...]
BLONDE hair and coloured contact lenses are popular among Asian youths and stars who are at the forefront of fashion. Cambodian singer Sok Pisey, known for her beautiful looks, rather than her singing voice, often wears green or even violet contact lenses when she appears on the concert stage. Other Cambodian models and actors such [...]
An American playwright who focuses on Cambodia is set to take part in a symposium with other Cambodian artists that looks at the relationship between the arts and peace building. Catherine Filloux, a French-Algerian American who wrote the popular musical “Where Elephants Weep,” told VOA Khmer recently that Cambodian theatre artists Chhon Sina and Ieng [...]
The Nobel-Baza Fine Art Gallery in San Diego is hosting this month two Cambodian artists. The gallery represents international artists who are making an impact on the contemporary art scene. The show is called “Sight Lines,” and it runs from June 3 to July 3. Pierrette Van Cleve, the founder and president of the Art [...]
Cambodians in Norway have selected the winner of the Miss Landmine for Cambodia after it was not allowed inside the country. Eighteen-year-old Dos Sopheap of Battambang was crowned in absentia in a ceremony attended by more than 200 participants on Saturday last week at the South Norway Museum of Modern Arts in Kristiansan. None of [...]
ON DECEMBER 3, hundreds of people gathered at the park next to Wat Botum for a special ceremony – and to share talents and ideas – in celebration of the 26th International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This happy gathering was different from others in the park – though one could hardly tell at first [...]