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A Close Look at Who Killed Chea Vichea?
April 28, 2011Who Killed Chea Vichea? airs this May on public television and follows the aftermath of Cambodian labor leader Chea Vichea’s assassination in 2004. The film exposes the political frame-up behind the conviction of two men, as well as the widespread corruption in Cambodia’s existing regime. ITVS’s Abigail Licad caught up with Director Bradley Cox to ask…
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On the Scene at a War Criminal’s Conviction
August 11, 2010The ITVS-funded film-in-progress Comrade Duch tells the story of the gifted Cambodian mathematician turned mass killer Kaing Guek Eav and the trial to bring him to justice. Filmmaker Adrian Maben was outside the courtroom last month when Duch was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to 35 years in prison. When I started to work on…
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Insufficient Justice: Socheata Poeuv Reacts to Khmer Rouge Verdict
July 29, 2010Filmmaker Socheata Poeuv was outside the courtroom on July 26, 2010, as Kaing Guek Eav (aka Comrade Duch) was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to 35 years (19 including time served) by an international tribunal. The director of the Independent Lens film New Year Baby, Poeuv was born in a refugee camp in Thailand during Cambodia’s…
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The Trials of Comrade Duch
July 27, 2010Much ado about the sentencing of Kaing Guek Eav — known by his Khmer Rouge nickname "Comrade Duch" — to 35 years in prison (to be reduced to 19 considering time served) on July 26 in Phnom Penh by a United Nations-led tribunal. The verdict and sentence shocked many Cambodians who remember Duch's reign of terror as a remorseless prison chief in charge of…
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In the News: The Latest on ITVS Programs
June 28, 2010Filmmaker Fears She's On U.S. Watch List The name "Laura Poitras" is familiar to Oscar judges, film festival juries, and security officers at U.S. airports, which is what happens when one directs critically acclaimed documentaries that require spending months in dangerous areas of the Middle East. Read more >>> War Insight, Beyond…