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The Storm Makers
Wide Angle
True Story · Social Criticism · Women
- CountryCambodia,France
- Production Year2014
- Running Time66min
- FormatDCP
- ColorColor
Program Note
This documentary exposes Cambodia’s prevalent human trafficking system, a large network in which huge numbers of young Cambodian women are sold as slaves to various countries such as Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand. “Storm makers” refers to the system and the people that evoke tears in its victims, predominantly poor and uneducated young women and their parents. The film focuses on three people in different positions to reveal the workings and effects of human trafficking. Aya, who was exploited for two years in Malaysia and became pregnant after being raped, Ming Dy, who sold his daughter and Pou Houy, a professional dealer who has recruited and sold over 500 women. After throwing the women into hell, Pou Houy goes to church and hopes to attain salvation, his hypocrisy inciting our fury. Aya’s confession that she abuses her baby because the baby reminds her of her trauma is painful to hear. The composed camera seems to request not immediate rage or sympathy, but rationality that will grasp the details of trafficking and help stop the “storm makers.” (CHO Hyeyoung)
Director
Guillaume SUON
French-Cambodian documentarian Guillaume Suon studied filmmaking under Rithy Panh and is also a fellow of the Sundance Institute and the IDFA. His filmography includes About My Father(2010), Red Wedding(2012) and The Last Refuge(2013).
Credit
- Director
Guillaume SUON - ProducerRithy Panh
Julien Roumy - CastAya
Pou Houy
Ming Dy - ScreenplayGuillaume Suon
Phally Ngoeum - CinematographyGuillaume Suon
- EditorBarbara Bossuet
- SoundPhally Ngoeum
- MusicMarc Marder
- Production CompanyTipasa Production
Bophana Production
julien.roumy@tipasaproduction.com
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