An independently-made eighty-minute feature film called Last Seen At Angkor is showing at the Action on Film festival in Los Angeles today, having been shot on a shoestring budget, using mostly local actors, in Cambodia, Thailand and Laos. Written and directed by Michael R Morris, who also takes the lead role alongside Wee Hong Thomas Lim, its a story of a man who has been searching for his missing fiance and returns to Cambodia one last time in hopes of finding her. Against a backdrop of the beauty of Southeast Asia, his search takes him outside the law and into the grip of a human trafficking nightmare. You can see a short trailer of the film at angkormovie.com. Read a note from Michael R Morris in the comments section.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Last Seen At Angkor
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3 comments:
Having just returned from my 2nd visit to Cambodia this year I would be very interested in seeing this movie. When will it come to London? How about DVD? I was involved in tracing an 11year old girl who had been taken from her mother on the promise of education and a better life. We located her at a military camp where she was a housemaid. She has since been returned to her family. Grinding poverty and comparative ignorance of outcome seems to be tbe root cause leading to a lot of trafficking. I am afraid that it seems to me to be almost institutionalised in these societies and not necessarily driven by the perv tourists.
Look forward to seeing the movie.
Brian
Brian, as an indie-film it may get a showing in the UK at a specialist indie cinema/festival, but there's certainly no guarantee that it will.
In case you missed my post about the K11 Project on 30 May, go to:
http://www.priorityfilms.com/k11/
for more info.
The K11 Project are producing three films - Holly, A Virgin Harvest and The K11 Journey - that expose the real life stories of children abducted into the horrifying world of child trafficking and prostitution. According to the UN, over two million children, some under the age of five, are trafficked and sold to prostitution each year. Somaly Mam is a key figure in A Virgin Harvest, a documentary dealing with personal testimonies, whilst Holly is a feature length film focusing on the story of an underage prostitute. The K11 Journey is the behind-the-scenes story of the three years of work undertaken to uncover the sex trade in SEAsia by the Project team.
I really enjoyed the film and wish you all the success in the world. Indy film is the only venue for filmmakers without the small budget and making quality for less is the bench mark of your work Micahel. Thanks again.
roby
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