NEWS RELEASEJuly 31, 2009
PUBLIC SCREENING OF WHO KILLED CHEA VICHEA?
AT RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
AT RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Loud Mouth Films is proud to present the first U.S. festival screening of Who Killed Chea Vichea? in Providence, Rhode Island.
Who Killed Chea Vichea? will be screened at 5:20 PM on Friday, Aug 7, at the Columbus Theatre Arts Center, 270 Broadway, Providence, along with the short films In Their Boots: Broken Promise by Abe Greenwald, and Open Air by Shira-Lee Shalit.
Filmed over five years in Cambodia, Who Killed Chea Vichea? is a one-hour documentary thriller about the assassination of Cambodia's top labor leader and the police plot to frame two innocent men. Cambodia is one of the world's largest garment producers and exports some $2 billion worth of garments to the U.S. each year.
On a sunny morning in 2004, two men on a motorbike pulled up at a Phnom Penh newsstand. One of them stepped off, walked over to Chea Vichea, the president of the garment workers union, and calmly shot him in the head and in the heart. Who Killed Chea Vichea? takes us from the dusty streets and slums of Phnom Penh to remote villages, through courtrooms, brothels, factories and gambling dens. It is an unprecedented film about the inner workings of one of the world's most corrupt states.
Produced by Providence native Rich Garella and directed by Bradley Cox, the film was named one of Amnesty International's top ten "Movies That Matter." It is a co-production of Independent Television Services and WGBH Boston.
"There's a large Cambodian community in Providence, and we're going to do our best to reach out to them," Garella said. The festival has already agreed to donate a block of tickets to Providence organization of Cambodian youth.
Loud Mouth Films: info@loudmouthfilms.net
Who Killed Chea Vichea? official site: http://www.whokilledcheavichea.com
Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=76083065273
Event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100857517875
BACKGROUND AND FILM SYNOPSIS
By 2004, Cambodia was becoming one of the world's largest garment exporters. Foreign-owned factories employed hundreds of thousands of desperate young women who flooded in from the countryside. The country quickly became dependent on garment exports. Its biggest customer was, and is, the United States.
Vichea, the president of Cambodia's free trade union, slept on a straw mat in the union office and didn't collect a salary. Despite beatings and death threats, he rallied the workers as they fought for wage increases, improved working conditions and an end to forced overtime, and often won. He gained an international reputation in the labor movement, and Cambodia gained a reputation as a model country for worker's rights.
But inside Cambodia, the lesson of the Khmer Rouge regime, and of the regimes before and after it, is well known. Ally oneself with power--or face the consequences.
WHO KILLED CHEA VICHEA? is about the killing of one man and the slow silencing of an entire nation. It is about how a small elite keeps an iron grip on power through the use of its police, its army, its manipulation of the courts and its most effective tool: fear. And it is about how hope survives against incredible odds.
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Loud Mouth Films
Philadelphia/Bangkok
http://www.whokilledcheavichea.com
Who Killed Chea Vichea? will be screened at 5:20 PM on Friday, Aug 7, at the Columbus Theatre Arts Center, 270 Broadway, Providence, along with the short films In Their Boots: Broken Promise by Abe Greenwald, and Open Air by Shira-Lee Shalit.
Filmed over five years in Cambodia, Who Killed Chea Vichea? is a one-hour documentary thriller about the assassination of Cambodia's top labor leader and the police plot to frame two innocent men. Cambodia is one of the world's largest garment producers and exports some $2 billion worth of garments to the U.S. each year.
On a sunny morning in 2004, two men on a motorbike pulled up at a Phnom Penh newsstand. One of them stepped off, walked over to Chea Vichea, the president of the garment workers union, and calmly shot him in the head and in the heart. Who Killed Chea Vichea? takes us from the dusty streets and slums of Phnom Penh to remote villages, through courtrooms, brothels, factories and gambling dens. It is an unprecedented film about the inner workings of one of the world's most corrupt states.
Produced by Providence native Rich Garella and directed by Bradley Cox, the film was named one of Amnesty International's top ten "Movies That Matter." It is a co-production of Independent Television Services and WGBH Boston.
"There's a large Cambodian community in Providence, and we're going to do our best to reach out to them," Garella said. The festival has already agreed to donate a block of tickets to Providence organization of Cambodian youth.
Contact:
Loud Mouth Films: info@loudmouthfilms.net
Festival and ticket info:
RI International Film Festival: http://riff.bside.com/2009/films/whokilledcheavichea_riff2009
Film website:
Who Killed Chea Vichea? official site: http://www.whokilledcheavichea.com
On FaceBook:
Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=76083065273
Event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100857517875
BACKGROUND AND FILM SYNOPSIS
By 2004, Cambodia was becoming one of the world's largest garment exporters. Foreign-owned factories employed hundreds of thousands of desperate young women who flooded in from the countryside. The country quickly became dependent on garment exports. Its biggest customer was, and is, the United States.
Vichea, the president of Cambodia's free trade union, slept on a straw mat in the union office and didn't collect a salary. Despite beatings and death threats, he rallied the workers as they fought for wage increases, improved working conditions and an end to forced overtime, and often won. He gained an international reputation in the labor movement, and Cambodia gained a reputation as a model country for worker's rights.
But inside Cambodia, the lesson of the Khmer Rouge regime, and of the regimes before and after it, is well known. Ally oneself with power--or face the consequences.
WHO KILLED CHEA VICHEA? is about the killing of one man and the slow silencing of an entire nation. It is about how a small elite keeps an iron grip on power through the use of its police, its army, its manipulation of the courts and its most effective tool: fear. And it is about how hope survives against incredible odds.
--
Loud Mouth Films
Philadelphia/Bangkok
http://www.whokilledcheavichea.com
17 comments:
Hun sen/hanoi regime killed him. Who else ? Its not the oppositions or the monarchy! Its the vietcong/khmer rouge alway, kills khmer.
Hun SeN knew the answer!, just go straight to his hous in Ta Khmao and ask him...
go ask ta duch!.....ops i meant hunkvak, he the one who can give the answer. Going to see the film just doesn't give you any info.
but i am support the film for those whose got the guts to reanact to what had happened to him.
thanks anyway!
Congratulation!
It is a controversal film if it is screened in cambodia, however public needs to see and knows about.
Killing should not be an act commmitted by any political motivation. It is a vicious cycle of worst karma for true buddhist.
The facts should come out!!!.
Neang SA
It's ahHUNSENNATION outLAW dit it!
Question: Who killed Chea Vichea?
Answer : Ask Hok Lundy.
you ask the killers, "Who killed Chea Vichea?" Are you in the right mind?
PPU : Asses Collector
Communist Vietnam killed Chea Vichea. Hun Sen has no power to stop Communist of Vietnam to do anything in Cambodia.
Hun Sen is a dictator but he wouldn't want the Garment factory to fly into Vietnam. Communist Vietnam wants that world largest Garment to be in Vietnam or otherwise.
Vietnam and Thailand would do everything to destroy Cambodia's economy.
Ps; Touch Sreynich, the Khmer Singer was shot because of Khmer Krom song.
Med. Stu.
PPU,
Hok Lundy was one of the powerful Vietnamese agent(s) in Cambodia when he was alive. I heard many more such as Tung Pov, Heng Pov's father in law, but whatever it was, Hok Lundy was a powerful Vietnamese agent in Cambodia.
Back then Vietnam economy was behind Cambodia, but with all fake Khmer IDs took over Cambodia economy, Vietnam now is ranked 20's whereas Cambodia is about 40's.
Hun Sen is being choked by those fake Khmers like Sok Kong, Phu Kok An and those Vietnamese who have carried Khmer ID do the business on Khmer people.
What I am saying is Hok Lundy and his Vietnamese death squads in Cambodia killed Chea Vichea not Hun Sen. But since those Vietnamese death squads are around Hun Sen and eating meal on the table with Hun Sen, he can be subjected to the crimes.
Post 12:31 AM is my post. I forgot to sign. ;)
Med. Stu.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
Tortures
Executions
Massacres
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Overwork to Death
Slavery
Rapes
Human Abuses
Assault and Battery
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
Assassinations
Assassinate Journalists
Assassinate Political Opponents
Murders
Killings
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and others military official on board.
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Remove Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Under Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed all of these crimes above within Hun Sen Khmer Rouge government have ever been brought to justice.
The president of Red Cross of Cambodia Bun Rany had order Hok Lundy to murder Piseth Pilika. Because Hun Sen was having an affaire with Piseth Pilika.
Source: Statement of Heng Peov
http://ia311543.us.archive.org/1/items/HengPoevStatementofHengPoev/Statement_of_Heng_Peov.pdf
Bun Rany is Hun Sen's wife.
Hok Lundy is Phnom Penh Municiple Police Chief and member of Hun Sen Death Squad.
Piseth Pilika is an Apsara dancer and a movie star.
The Red Cross should not have a murderer as a president.
Who does? Hun Sen the blind hyena prime minister the one who use his hidden man to kill the labor leader . No one else can do that dirty act.
2:07 AM comment : I agree with you. We have to dig out of the roots of the problems.
Don't forget to post this film on youtube as soon as possible.
A short version of who killed "CHEA VICHEA" could be viewed with Youtube.com below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaqWXbAmJko
Thank you.
"WHO KILL CHEA VICHEA".........I hope everyone is watching Chinese Movie...if you do then you have more chance to answer the question right. DO YOU THINK HUN SEN KILLED CHEA VICHEA "DUMB"..............why don't anyone think! what is Brother from the Same Party kill CHEA VICHEA....and let HUN SEN be the bad guy! "SMART"...
All politician wants popularity...so if you are a Leader of your party what should you do to make your party popular..."One party gain so much popularity because so many people that working for them died"...You think Hun Sen would do that so That party get popularity "DUMB".
SUM UP "WHO KILL CHEA VICHEA" ...It's must be he was at the wrong time, at the right place to die. "WHOSE BEHIND IT".....The party that gain popularity would be.
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