Portrait of a Survivor
Leah Warshawki was interviewed in CityArts about her forthcoming documentary Big Sonia.
Loung Ung’s work to be adapted for Netflix by Angelina Jolie
Author and activist Loung Ung survived the Cambodian Genocide as a child. Now her internationally recognized memoir ‘First They Killed My Father’ is going to be adapted for film by Netflix and Angelina Jolie. Oscar-winning actress Jolie Pitt, who directed 2014’s Unbroken, read Ung’s book, which was published in 2000, and the two became close …
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Loung Ung interview on WNYC
Author Loung Ung talks with Leonard Lopate about coming to terms with her violent childhood in Cambodia’s notorious killing fields and her new memoir, Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2012/apr/23/lulu-sky/#commentlist
Socheata Poeuv: New video
Check out this great interview with Socheata Poeuv where she talks about the revelation of a family secret, and how that led her to create her non-profit, Khmer Legacies, an organization that encourages young Cambodian-Americans to interview their relatives about the Khmer Rouge regime: https://www.samaralectures.com/speakers-names/socheata-poeuv/?post_type=speaker-videos
Koor Garang shares story of tragedy and triumph
Koor Garang, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan featured in the documentary Rebuilding Hope directed by Jen Marlowe, shared his story of survival in Green Valley, AZ, and was profiled in the Green Valley News and Sun: http://www.gvnews.com/news/article_2ab37398-810d-11e0-b87e-001cc4c002e0.html