Cambodian Wins Screenwriter’s Prize at Cannes
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 3:25 pm
Davy Chou Wins Screenwriter’s Prize at Cannes
by Michelle Vachon | May 23, 2016
Davy Chou’s feature film “Diamond Island,” shot mostly in Phnom Penh and featuring an all Cambodian cast, was awarded the French Screenwriter and Author Society’s SACD prize on Thursday during the Cannes Film Festival.
The award is presented each year to one of the films screened during the film critics’ week, which showcases the first feature films by new directors at the festival.
A still from Davy Chou’s film ‘Diamond Island’
Mr. Chou was given the prize by screenwriter Christine Laurent, who described the film as “intimate, social, with a strangeness and affinity of modern worlds.”
A French director of Cambodian ancestry, Mr. Chou won several awards for his 2011 documentary film “Golden Slumber” about Cambodia’s vibrant film industry in the 1960s and had his short film “Cambodia 2099” shown during the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2014.
With “Diamond Island,” he said on Sunday by email, “what was important was to present a different image of Cambodia…and I believe that the public as well as critics enjoyed getting into this story of boys and girls in today’s Cambodia.”
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by Michelle Vachon | May 23, 2016
Davy Chou’s feature film “Diamond Island,” shot mostly in Phnom Penh and featuring an all Cambodian cast, was awarded the French Screenwriter and Author Society’s SACD prize on Thursday during the Cannes Film Festival.
The award is presented each year to one of the films screened during the film critics’ week, which showcases the first feature films by new directors at the festival.
A still from Davy Chou’s film ‘Diamond Island’
Mr. Chou was given the prize by screenwriter Christine Laurent, who described the film as “intimate, social, with a strangeness and affinity of modern worlds.”
A French director of Cambodian ancestry, Mr. Chou won several awards for his 2011 documentary film “Golden Slumber” about Cambodia’s vibrant film industry in the 1960s and had his short film “Cambodia 2099” shown during the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 2014.
With “Diamond Island,” he said on Sunday by email, “what was important was to present a different image of Cambodia…and I believe that the public as well as critics enjoyed getting into this story of boys and girls in today’s Cambodia.”
Continue reading: https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/davy ... es-112909/