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Government Nixes Chut Wutty Film Screening

 Cambodia Daily | 19 April 2016

...director and producer Fran Lambrick said on Monday she believed the motivation was purely political.

“Meta House have decided not to go ahead with showing the film,” she said in an email. “There were no warnings that this might occur, but the government is increasingly repressive towards environmental defenders—these are exactly the people who should be lauded and honoured.”

Plans to screen a documentary in Phnom Penh this week about the final months of slain environmental activist Chut Wutty’s life have been called off at the behest of the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, according to the film’s director.

The ministry sent a letter on Monday to Nico Mesterharm, founder and director of Meta House, which planned to show “I am Chut Wutty” on Wednesday, explaining that the screening of the film could not go ahead because of a lack of proper permits.

“I would like to inform you that the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has received information about screening a documentary film entitled ‘I am Chut Wutty’ that will be held [at] 8:00 p.m. on 20th April, 2016 at the German-Cambodian Cultural Center,” it says, using another name for Meta House.

“[T]he Ministry has noticed that the German-Cambodian Cultural Center has not yet received permission in accordance with existing provisions that require all kinds of films to receive authorization from the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts before screening publicly.”

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