Cambodia Town Film Festival to be held in September 2015

For Immediate Release:

Long Beach, California – August 10, 2015 — The @Cambodia Cambodia Town Film Festival (CTFF) will be held September

3-6, 2015 at the Art Theatre Long Beach, CA. Now in its third year, the CTFF was created in 2013 to highlight the diversity of the Cambodian experience as expressed through film. The CTFF presents the works of both established and emerging filmmakers in various genres, including documentaries, re-released classics, short films, and animated features. In addition to the films themselves, the CTFF program includes a variety of special events and panel discussions with directors, producers, writers, and actors.

This year’s CTFF is particularly significant as 2015 marks forty years since the takeover of Cambodia by the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in 1975, which maintained its hold on the country for nearly four years. During the regime, up to 2 million people died by overwork, starvation, disease, and execution.

“It is important to acknowledge the impact of the Khmer Rouge on the Cambodian people, not only during the regime itself, but for decades afterward,” states CTFF co-founder praCh Ly. “The films featured in this year’s CTFF are all influenced by the violence and trauma of Khmer Rouge period and its aftermath in some way. At the same time, however, the CTFF pays tribute to the strength and resilience of the survivors.”