What's On

Call for Actors

Open Calls for Actors & Non-Actors:

*Freedom Deal*

Sunday May 18th @ Zeppelin Rock Cafe 3-5pm (next to Walkabout Hotel on St. 51

Email camerado [via] camerado.com for breadowns & info

http://www.camerado.com

Pangaea Day

[courtesy Java Arts]

Dear Friends,

I would like to tell you about an amazing world-wide event that is happening this weekend!! Some of you know about it already...Pangea Day.

"Pangea Day is a global event bringing the world together through film.

Why? In a world where people are often divided by borders, difference, and conflict, it's easy to lose sight of what we all have in common. Pangea Day seeks to overcome that – to help people see themselves in others – through the power of film."

--Mission statement, www.pangeaday.org

It will premiere in our part of the world (Cambodia) at 1am this Saturday night. You can watch it online as well as on Star World. If you want to experience this with your friends and neighbors, go to the Gym Bar, #42 St. 178. They have a great set up and big screen! But please call to confirm--Randal 012 815 884. The more the better!

I hope you all get the chance to see it!

Dana

p.s. for those of you receiving this who don't live in Cambodia, please visit the website to find out when it is showing in your country!

www.pangeaday.org

Bum N' drazE at Factory, St. 240, Phnom Penh, Friday 09.05. 2008

Dear lovers of alternative rock music,

Please be informed that the Bum N' drazE 'Bates Motel Revisited' 2008 tour
hits the Factory (St. 240, near Norodom Boulevard) in Phnom Penh on Friday 9
May 2008 at 2100 hrs. The gig poster attached.

Warning for traditionally over-enthusiastic fans: This time as Crowd
Control: MC Rekola from Finland, a hang-around biker club of European Hell's
Angels (provided that still standing at 9 pm)! ... a dark reminder of the
Rolling Stones' Altamont concert!

CDs and merchandise available at the gig place, as always.

Stay tuned for the next tour dates in Phnom Penh and other provinces of
Cambodia!

Rock on!
Bum N' drazE
Your favourite underground rock band in Indochina

Meta-House Update May 07

META HOUSE
Street 264, #6 - Sangkat Chaktomuk, Khan Daun Penh,
Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia
Fixed +855- (0)23 224 140, Mobil +855- (0) 12- 607 465
Homepage: www.meta-house.com,
email: mesterharm@gmx.net

Dear Friends, Colleagues & Art Lovers!
Pls. be our guest for DAYDREAMS: The on-going collaborative arts and photography project between children at iCAN British International School and the Indochina Starfish Foundation. (Open from Tuesday to Sunday, 6PM)

This is our cinema program for the week
more infos at the bottom, films start at 7.30PM:

WED, 07/05 GERMAN CINEMA: STATUS YO!
Breathlessly energetic Berlin-set hip-hop epic
(English subtitles, 118 min, 2004)

THU, 08/05 GERMAN CINEMA : DIE LAST DER TRAEUME
Ein "Filmfilm" vom Feinsten: The Making of "Fitzcarraldo"
(Only In German/in Deutsch, 95 min)

FRI, 09/05 PHNOM PENH FILMFEST: THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND
Oscar-nominated documentary by Sam Green and Bill Siegel.

SAT, 10/05 FOCUS CAMBODIA: DOGORA
Beautiful Cambodian "street level documentary" by Patrice Leconte
(80 min, 2004,)

SUN, 11/05 SET IN ASIA: CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON
An Academy Award winning Chinese film by master director Ang Lee
(In Mandarin with English subtitles, 2000, 120 min)

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WED, 07/05
GERMAN CINEMA
STATUS YO!
Breathlessly energetic Berlin-set hip-hop epic »Status Yo!« - directed by newcomer Till Hastreiter employs performers and locations from local music scene to tell an ambitious story of one eventful night in the German capital. With just 24 hours in which to organize the biggest party the city's ever seen, Yan Eq, Jamie, Sera and others must deal with their love lives, tenuous living arrangements and various shady characters on their way to hip-hop glory. (English subtitles, 118 min, 2004)

THU, 08/05
GERMAN CINEMA
DIE LAST DER TRAEUME
Ein "Filmfilm" vom Feinsten: Les Blanks "Burden of Dreams" dokumentiert den teils chaotischen, teils dramatischen dreijaehrigen Schaffungsprozess von Werner Herzogs wahnwitzigem Filmprojekt "Fitzcarraldo" (Deutschland/Peru 1982) mit Klaus Kinski. Die genaue Beobachtung der Dreharbeiten ist zum Teil nervenaufreibender als Herzogs Meisterwerk selbst...(Only In German/in Deutsch, 95 min)

FRI, 09/05,
PHNOM PENH FILMFEST
THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND
In the 1960s and 1970s, the polarization of the US political situation was becoming acute with the Vietnam War abroad and civil rights at home. An idealistic faction, called the Weather Underground, attempted to team up with the Black Panthers to violently confront the US government Oscar-nominated documentary by Sam Green and Bill Siegel.

SAT, 10/05
FOCUS CAMBODIA
DOGORA
Khmer Hypnotic: The French film by Patrice Leconte is often called a "street level documentary", that beautifully captures the daily routines of the people of Cambodia accompanied by a majestic classical soundtrack. A filmic experiment without any explanation, plot, actors or script: Similar in style to "Baraka" and "Koyaanisqatsi (80 min, 2004,)

SUN, 11/05
SET IN ASIA
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON
An Academy Award winning Chinese film in the wuxia (chivalric and martial arts) style, the script is based one of five novels known in China as the "Crane-Iron Pentalogy." It features an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow-Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh and became a surprise international success. Ang Lee's masterpiece is the highest-grossing foreign language film ever in the U.S. (In Mandarin with English subtitles, 2000, 120 min)

The 2008 Festival of Music - Phnom Penh

Press Release

This unique event, celebrated simultaneously by millions of people throughout the world, will take place in Phnom Penh from June 16 through June 21. Every evening during the festival, Khmer and French musicians will invade the premises of the French Cultural Center to share their musical passions and make Phnom Penh dance to their rhythms.

On the program for the festivities are the following:

June 16: Demonstration of six traditional Khmer instruments by the musicians of Sovanna Phum.

June 17: Concert of Arak sacred music, conducted by Yun Khean, professor at the Royal University of Fine Arts.

June 18: Original outdoor screening of Charlie Chaplin's "The Kid," with accompaniment by musicians from the Royal University of Fine Arts.

June 19: Western classical music performed by Cambodian musicians.

June 20: Original musical performance by two French accordionists and Cambodian musicians / To be followed by the Festival of Music in many city bars, well into the night …

June 21: Concert by Cambodian stars, followed by X-Makeena, a French electronic music group, and concluding with "Funk Night" at the Café du Centre…

Dates: from June 16 to June 21, 2008

For more information: French Cultural Center, 218, Street 184, Phnom Penh / www.ccf-cambodge.org

Press contact: Marie de Pibrac, marie.de-pibrac@ccf-cambodge.org/ +855 (0)12 905 128

More: (800K download:)

Press-Folder-Fete-2008.pdf

Lecture at REYUM on Friday May 9th

Lecture at REYUM on Friday May 9th, 6-7pm: "The Drainage System in Ancient
Temples" by Mrs. SO Sokuntheary, Ph.D, Architect
Reyum Institute
#47, Street 178, P.O Box: 2438
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tel / Fax: 855 23 217 149
E-mail: reyum@camnet.com.kh
www.reyum.org

CAMBOFEST Fee Waivers Available

Subject: CAMBOFEST Fee Waivers Available -- read more!

In consideration of the global aspects of our aims with CamboFest, we're now offering **fee waivers** to filmmakers who can locate an additional film submission from a filmmaker from a lesser developed nation (see the UNDP development index here: http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/)

SO: filmmakers from "highly developed nations" (US, UK, etc)

1) find a "buddy" filmmaker from one of the UNDP's list from Medium Development [Dominica through Gambia] on down to Low Development [Senegal through Sierra Leone] who wants to submit their movie to CamboFest

2) wrangle your entries and print out this announcement and include it with both submissions--

3) both movies will be waivered!*

IMPORTANT: Please understand that this wouldn't apply to foreign filmmakers who have emigrated to a developed host country and have made their movie there (ie, a filmmaker from Laos who has already moved to LA and has made her/his movie there with the support of the LA production environment wouldn't qualify)

The whole idea is to find and "reward" those filmmakers from lesser developed countries who have slugged it out in a (presumably) less robust media production sector in their home country, along with the "buddy" filmmakers from the more advanced nations who have gone to the trouble to locate and invite those films...

Hope this makes sense, if in doubt, email us at info@cambofest.com

The CAMBOFEST TEAM
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'Holly' Screening

Holly continues at the Quad for additional week!

NY MAG Critics Pick of the week!! "A MUST SEE FILM!"

"A Masterpiece," Superb Film," Brilliant," "Extraordinary"

Please help us continue raising awareness to the problem of human trafficking and sexual exploitation, and join us at the Quad this week for a screening. HOLLY will be playing daily at 1, 3:40, 6:15, and 9:00PM Daily.

We truly need and appreciate your help to make sure that everyone knows about the film and comes to see it. Please forward this on and invite your family, friends and colleagues. THE QUAD IS LOCATED AT 34 W. 13th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues.

JOIN US AT THE QUAD CINEMA:
34 W 13th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues

For additional locations, screening times, and to purchase tickets, please go to www.priorityfilms.com/locations.php

See the TRAILER and Behind the scenes at www.PriorityFilms.com

For more information about the campaign - www.RedlightChildren.org

Come celebrate the opening weekend of Holly with us!

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Guy Jacobson
Adi Ezroni
Mandy Tagger
And the Priority Films Team

Synopsis

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Shot on location in Cambodia, including many scenes in actualbrothels
in the notoriousred light district of Phnom Penh, HOLLY is a captivating, touching and emotional drama.

Patrick (Ron Livingston), an American card shark and dealer of stolen artifacts, has been 'comfortably numb' in Cambodia for years, when he encounters Holly (Thuy Nguyen), a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, in the K11 red light village. The girl has been sold by her impoverished family and smuggled across the border to work as a prostitute.

Holly's virginity makes her a lucrative prize, and when she is sold to a child trafficker, Patrick embarks on a frantic search through both the beautiful and sordid faces of the country, in an attempt to bring her to safety.

Harsh, yet poetic, this feature forms part of the 'K-11' Project, dedicated to raising awareness of the epidemic of child trafficking and the sex slavery trade through several film projects. The film's producers endured substantital hardships in order to be able to shoot in Cambodia and have also founded the RedLight Children Campaign, which is a worldwide grassroots initiative generating conscious concern and inspiring immediate action against child sexploitation.

Quick Links...

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www.priorityfilms.com

www.RedlightChildren.org

Contact Information

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Guy Jacobson
917 5132194
guy@priorityfilms.com

Adi Ezroni
917 3066042
adi@priorityfilms.com

Mandy Tagger
917 5324507
mandy@priorityfilms.com

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