2014 Script Development Fund
LIST Diamond IslandCategory | Asian Project |
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Project | Diamond Island |
Director | Davy CHOU |
Country | Cambodia, France |
Director's Profile |
Davy Chou is a French-Cambodian filmmaker born in 1983. In 2009, he established a filmmaking workshop in Phnom Penh and founded a collective for young Cambodian film-makers, Kon Khmer Koun Khmer. The grandson of the Cambodian producer Van Chan, he organized Golden Reawakening Festival in 2009, which celebrated the golden age of Cambodian cinema during the 1960s and 1970s. <Golden Slumbers>(2011) was his first feature-length documentary. It was selected for Busan International Film Festival in 2011, Berlinale Forum in 2012, as well as for more than forty international festivals including Hong Kong, Tokyo, San Francisco, and Sydney. His short film <Cambodia 2099>(2014) was selected for Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes. |