Filmmaker
Alice Gu
Alice Gu is a director and cinematographer who made The Donut King, about Cambodian refugee doughnut entrepreneurs in California.
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Khmer and Cambodian diaspora writers, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, chefs and artists.
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Loung Ung
A Cambodian American memoirist and activist whose trilogy traces survival under the Khmer Rouge and life afterward in the United States.
Chef Nak
A Cambodian chef and culinary author who documents Khmer home and royal cooking.
Kalyanee Mam
A Cambodian American documentary filmmaker and lawyer who directed A River Changes Course (2013).
Laura Mam
A Cambodian American singer, songwriter and music producer who co-founded Baramey Production.Find a creator
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Filmmaker
Allison Chhorn
Allison Chhorn is a Cambodian-Australian filmmaker and artist from Adelaide whose films, some of them in Khmer, deal with memory and the Cambodian diaspora.
Musician
Amara Goel
Cambodian American classically trained soprano and founder and host of The Threaded Path, a podcast about Cambodian artists and memory.
Author, Educator
Ang Choulean អាំង ជូលាន
Cambodian ethnologist who studies Khmer rites and village beliefs, a professor at the Royal University of Fine Arts and a former director of culture at APSARA.
Filmmaker
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie is a filmmaker and actor who directed the Khmer-language feature First They Killed My Father.
Author, Educator
Anthony Veasna So
Cambodian American fiction writer and essayist whose work portrays Khmer American life in California's Central Valley.
Educator, Musician
Arn Chorn-Pond
Musician, teacher and human rights advocate who founded Cambodian Living Arts.
Author, Educator
Bunkong Tuon
Cambodian American poet and novelist who teaches English at Union College.
Actor
Bérénice Marlohe
Bérénice Marlohe is a French actor of Cambodian and Chinese descent, known as Sévérine in the James Bond film Skyfall.
Author, Educator
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Asian American studies scholar who analysed Cambodian American memory work in film, literature, rap and performance.
Filmmaker
Caylee So
Caylee So is a Khmer American director and co-founder of the Cambodia Town Film Festival in Long Beach, California.
Author
Chanda Ouk Wolf
Cambodian American children's book author whose picture book connects Cambodian American families to the donut-shop trade.
Author, Oral historian
Chanrithy Him
Cambodian American memoirist and speaker who survived the Khmer Rouge period as a child.
Author, Chef
Chantha Nguon
Cambodian memoirist and cook who reconstructs family Khmer recipes alongside an account of exile and return.
Author, Visual artist
Chath pierSath
Cambodian American poet and painter who divides his time between a Massachusetts farm and Cambodia.
Author, Chef
Chef Nak ចុងភៅណាក់
Cambodian chef and culinary author who documents and revives Khmer home and royal cooking.
Educator, Master practitioner
Chey Chankethya
Cambodian dancer and choreographer trained in classical dance, the first artistic director of Amrita Performing Arts.
Author, Educator
Chheng Phon ឆេង ផុន
Cambodian dramatist and educator who rebuilt the country's arts schools and performing arts repertoire after the Khmer Rouge period.
Composer, Educator
Chinary Ung
Cambodian-American composer whose orchestral work ''Inner Voices'' won the Grawemeyer Award in 1989.
Author, Educator
Christine Su
Southeast Asian studies scholar and editor who founded the Khmer Generations Project and edits and writes books on Khmer diaspora life.
Author, Educator
Christoph Strobel
Historian at the University of Massachusetts Lowell who recorded oral histories of the city's immigrant communities.
Filmmaker
David Grabias
David Grabias is a Los Angeles-based documentary director who co-directed Sentenced Home, about Cambodian American deportees.
Filmmaker
David Siev
Filmmaker whose documentary Bad Axe and short film Year Zero screened at the Cambodia Town Film Festival.
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