After originally studying interior design, Cambodian Danech San turned to filmmaking, working with Anti-Archive on “Three Wheels” as production manager, and “Diamond Island” as casting assistant and assistant production manager. Her debut film, “A Million Years”, world premiered at the 2018 Busan International Film Festival. It subsequently was named Best Southeast Asian Short Film at the 2018 Singapore International Film Festival and won the Arte Short Film Award at the 2019 Internationales Kurz film Festival Hamburg. (source: Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival). For her second film, she cooperates again with Davy Chou, who handles the role of producer along Daniel Mattes, while as production designer, we find another Cambodian filmmaker, Sreylin Meas.
“Sunrise in My Mind” is screening at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
The story takes place in a beauty salon, where the protagonist, Pich, is washing the hair of a female client under the sound of Boney M’s “Hands...
“Sunrise in My Mind” is screening at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
The story takes place in a beauty salon, where the protagonist, Pich, is washing the hair of a female client under the sound of Boney M’s “Hands...
- 5/4/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Les Films du Losange has announced the French release of the film White Building, directed by Cambodian Kavich Neang, on December 22. It is co-produced by Davy Chou, himself a Franco-Cambodian director.
White Building tells the story of 20-year-old Samnang, who lives in a historic building in Phnom Penh. He faces the departure of his best friend, the illness of his father and the imminent demolition of his lifelong home; pressures which all arise and intersect at this moment of sudden change. Piseth Chhun, the main actor, won the Orizzonti Award for Best Actor for his role as Samnang at the 78th Venice Film Festival this year.
A sensual and scintillating ode to youth, the film also addresses the issues of the transmission of culture, globalization and the transformation of the Asian continent.
With five short films under his belt since 2011, White Building is director Kavich Neang’s first feature film.
White Building tells the story of 20-year-old Samnang, who lives in a historic building in Phnom Penh. He faces the departure of his best friend, the illness of his father and the imminent demolition of his lifelong home; pressures which all arise and intersect at this moment of sudden change. Piseth Chhun, the main actor, won the Orizzonti Award for Best Actor for his role as Samnang at the 78th Venice Film Festival this year.
A sensual and scintillating ode to youth, the film also addresses the issues of the transmission of culture, globalization and the transformation of the Asian continent.
With five short films under his belt since 2011, White Building is director Kavich Neang’s first feature film.
- 11/25/2021
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
Emerging Cambodian filmmaker Kavich Neang has a deep personal connection with the White Building, an iconic structure that was demolished in 2017.
Neang’s fiction film “White Building” has its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons strand, and the filmmaker has also explored the subject in the Rotterdam-winning documentary “Last Night I Saw You Smiling” (2019).
The White Building was built in 1963 by Cambodian architect Lu Ban Hap and Russian architect Vladimir Bodiansky, in the middle of Phnom Penh. During the Khmer Rouge regime, it was completely empty as the whole country was forced to leave their homes in the city, and many of them were killed during that period.
Post-Khmer Rouge, many artists, painters, Cambodian classical performers, traditional musicians, singers, circus performers and sculptors returned to their homes, and some were invited to live in the White Building.
“My father was one of the sculptors,” Neang told Variety.
Neang’s fiction film “White Building” has its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons strand, and the filmmaker has also explored the subject in the Rotterdam-winning documentary “Last Night I Saw You Smiling” (2019).
The White Building was built in 1963 by Cambodian architect Lu Ban Hap and Russian architect Vladimir Bodiansky, in the middle of Phnom Penh. During the Khmer Rouge regime, it was completely empty as the whole country was forced to leave their homes in the city, and many of them were killed during that period.
Post-Khmer Rouge, many artists, painters, Cambodian classical performers, traditional musicians, singers, circus performers and sculptors returned to their homes, and some were invited to live in the White Building.
“My father was one of the sculptors,” Neang told Variety.
- 9/6/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Anti-Archive is a Cambodian film production company created in January 2014 by Davy Chou, Steve Chen, and Kavich Neang. In 2016, Park Sung-ho joined as a partner, and in 2020, Daniel Mattes joined as a fifth partner. Anti-Archive produces and co-produces fiction and documentary films by the emerging, new generation of Cambodian filmmakers, as well as films by international, independent directors shooting in Cambodia. Among the projects the company has completed are “Diamond Island” and “Last Night I Saw You Smiling“, while “California Dreaming” is their last film.
“California Dreaming” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
The 16-minute short revolves around two girls. Sarita is visiting an ocean-front resort to get away from the hectic rhythm of Pnom Penh, where she meets another young woman, Sak, who works in the hotel and used to live in the city before she came to the resort. Sak takes Sarita to visit...
“California Dreaming” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
The 16-minute short revolves around two girls. Sarita is visiting an ocean-front resort to get away from the hectic rhythm of Pnom Penh, where she meets another young woman, Sak, who works in the hotel and used to live in the city before she came to the resort. Sak takes Sarita to visit...
- 3/7/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Aperture returns for its second edition, continuing our commitment to presenting some of the boldest, most daring and striking films from the Asian and Pacific regions to wide and diverse audiences across the UK. Aperture is the only UK film festival to cover the whole of the Asian region and also to explore Oceania.
The Festival will be hosting Singaporean filmmaker Daniel Hui in London for the first complete show of his full body of work to date, including the UK premiere of his latest film “Demons”. Aperture will also welcome Yih Wen Chen to the UK for the world premiere of her moving documentary “Eye on the Ball”, with audio-description, on the Malaysian blind youth football team.
10 Sep
One of Aperture’s new titles, “Last Night I Saw You Smiling” by Kavich Neang will be Open City Documentary Festival Closing Night Film.
Producer Daniel Mattes in London for the...
The Festival will be hosting Singaporean filmmaker Daniel Hui in London for the first complete show of his full body of work to date, including the UK premiere of his latest film “Demons”. Aperture will also welcome Yih Wen Chen to the UK for the world premiere of her moving documentary “Eye on the Ball”, with audio-description, on the Malaysian blind youth football team.
10 Sep
One of Aperture’s new titles, “Last Night I Saw You Smiling” by Kavich Neang will be Open City Documentary Festival Closing Night Film.
Producer Daniel Mattes in London for the...
- 9/8/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Cambodian filmmaking collective Anti-Archive’s Echoes of Tomorrow initiative debuted in Busan’s Wide Angle shorts competition with the world premiere of Danech San’s “A Million Years.” Echoes of Tomorrow provides an opportunity to three first-time filmmakers to direct a short each.
“The film is not really like a story. My intention is to really talk about inner feelings,” San told Variety. “A Million Years” follows a woman taking a break in a riverside restaurant who talks about her past experiences with her server. The other two shorts, “Garden,” by Sreylin Meas, and “Intersection,” by Kanitha Tith, will be completed by the end of the year.
Anti-Archive was founded in 2014 by Davy Chou, Kavich Neang and Steve Chen, with Park Sungho joining in 2016. The collective has had considerable success around the world. “Dream Land” (2015), directed by Chen, was selected for the Locarno Film Festival; Chou’s “Diamond Island” was...
“The film is not really like a story. My intention is to really talk about inner feelings,” San told Variety. “A Million Years” follows a woman taking a break in a riverside restaurant who talks about her past experiences with her server. The other two shorts, “Garden,” by Sreylin Meas, and “Intersection,” by Kanitha Tith, will be completed by the end of the year.
Anti-Archive was founded in 2014 by Davy Chou, Kavich Neang and Steve Chen, with Park Sungho joining in 2016. The collective has had considerable success around the world. “Dream Land” (2015), directed by Chen, was selected for the Locarno Film Festival; Chou’s “Diamond Island” was...
- 10/8/2018
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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