Arts and media

Creators

Khmer and Cambodian diaspora writers, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, chefs and artists.

Watercolor of an artist studio with an easel, a film camera, a chapei lute and a typewriter
Illustration inspired by an arts school in Battambang.

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Loung Ung

Loung Ung

CreatorA Cambodian American memoirist and activist whose trilogy traces survival under the Khmer Rouge and life afterward in the United States.
Chef Nak

Chef Nak

CreatorA Cambodian chef and culinary author who documents Khmer home and royal cooking.
Kalyanee Mam

Kalyanee Mam

CreatorA Cambodian American documentary filmmaker and lawyer who directed A River Changes Course (2013).
Laura Mam

Laura Mam

CreatorA Cambodian American singer, songwriter and music producer who co-founded Baramey Production.

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Filmmaker

Alice Gu

Alice Gu is a director and cinematographer who made The Donut King, about Cambodian refugee doughnut entrepreneurs in California.

Filmmaker

Allison Chhorn

Australia

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

Cambodia

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

United States

Cambodian American fiction writer and essayist whose work portrays Khmer American life in California's Central Valley.

Educator, Musician

Arn Chorn-Pond

Cambodia

Musician, teacher and human rights advocate who founded Cambodian Living Arts.

Musician

Bochan

United States

Bochan is a Cambodian American singer-songwriter based in Oakland, California.

Author, Educator

Bunkong Tuon

United States

Cambodian American poet and novelist who teaches English at Union College.

Actor

Bérénice Marlohe

France

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

United States

Asian American studies scholar who analysed Cambodian American memory work in film, literature, rap and performance.

Filmmaker

Caylee So

United States

Caylee So is a Khmer American director and co-founder of the Cambodia Town Film Festival in Long Beach, California.

Author

Chanda Ouk Wolf

United States

Cambodian American children's book author whose picture book connects Cambodian American families to the donut-shop trade.

Author, Oral historian

Chanrithy Him

United States

Cambodian American memoirist and speaker who survived the Khmer Rouge period as a child.

Author, Chef

Chantha Nguon

Cambodia

Cambodian memoirist and cook who reconstructs family Khmer recipes alongside an account of exile and return.

Author, Visual artist

Chath pierSath

United States

Cambodian American poet and painter who divides his time between a Massachusetts farm and Cambodia.

Author, Chef

Chef Nak ចុងភៅណាក់

Cambodia

Cambodian chef and culinary author who documents and revives Khmer home and royal cooking.

Educator, Master practitioner

Chey Chankethya

Cambodia

Cambodian dancer and choreographer trained in classical dance, the first artistic director of Amrita Performing Arts.

Author, Educator

Chheng Phon ឆេង ផុន

Cambodia

Cambodian dramatist and educator who rebuilt the country's arts schools and performing arts repertoire after the Khmer Rouge period.

Composer, Educator

Chinary Ung

United States

Cambodian-American composer whose orchestral work ''Inner Voices'' won the Grawemeyer Award in 1989.

Author, Educator

Christine Su

United States

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

United States

Historian at the University of Massachusetts Lowell who recorded oral histories of the city's immigrant communities.

Filmmaker

David Grabias

United States

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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