The film New Year Baby was produced by Socheata PoeuvSocheata Poeuv, Charles Vogl
August 20, 2010
The New York Times
Socheata Poeuv and Charles Hong-Sun Vogl were married Wednesday evening at the Westin Moana Surfrider Hotel in Honolulu. The Rev. Dr. Glenn M. Libby, an Episcopal priest and a chaplain at the University of Southern California, officiated.
Ms. Poeuv, 30, is keeping her name. She is the founder and chief executive of Khmer Legacies, a nonprofit organization in New Haven that documents the Cambodian genocide through videotaped testimonies. She is a visiting fellow at the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University, where she is starting her first year in the M.B.A, program at the School of Management. She graduated from Smith.
She is the daughter of Houng Kear Poeuv and Nin Poeuv of Carrollton, Tex. The bride’s parents are retired from the Maxim Corporation, computer parts makers in Dallas. He was a foreman; she was a supervisor.
Mr. Vogl, 36, is a documentary filmmaker and a founder of Broken English Productions in New York. He was a consulting producer on the documentaries “William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe” and “Whatever It Takes.” He also produced a documentary that Ms. Poeuv directed called “New Year Baby.” The film, shown on PBS in 2008, tells the story of Ms. Poeuv’s parents’ experiences with the Khmer Rouge during its murderous reign in Cambodia, and about her parents’ escape to a Thai refugee camp, where Ms. Poeuv was born.
In the fall, Mr. Vogl is to begin his fourth year in the master’s program in divinity at Yale. From 1999 through 2001 he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia, where, among other things, he helped rehabilitate a health clinic. He graduated from U.S.C.
He is a son of Marcia C. Vogl and Richard G. Vogl of Santa Ana, Calif. The bridegroom’s mother, who is retired, worked in the mortgage division at a Chase Manhattan branch in Irvine, Calif. She was the supervisor of the document department. His father is a court commissioner on the Orange County Superior Court.
Ms. Poeuv, 30, is keeping her name. She is the founder and chief executive of Khmer Legacies, a nonprofit organization in New Haven that documents the Cambodian genocide through videotaped testimonies. She is a visiting fellow at the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University, where she is starting her first year in the M.B.A, program at the School of Management. She graduated from Smith.
She is the daughter of Houng Kear Poeuv and Nin Poeuv of Carrollton, Tex. The bride’s parents are retired from the Maxim Corporation, computer parts makers in Dallas. He was a foreman; she was a supervisor.
Mr. Vogl, 36, is a documentary filmmaker and a founder of Broken English Productions in New York. He was a consulting producer on the documentaries “William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe” and “Whatever It Takes.” He also produced a documentary that Ms. Poeuv directed called “New Year Baby.” The film, shown on PBS in 2008, tells the story of Ms. Poeuv’s parents’ experiences with the Khmer Rouge during its murderous reign in Cambodia, and about her parents’ escape to a Thai refugee camp, where Ms. Poeuv was born.
In the fall, Mr. Vogl is to begin his fourth year in the master’s program in divinity at Yale. From 1999 through 2001 he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Zambia, where, among other things, he helped rehabilitate a health clinic. He graduated from U.S.C.
He is a son of Marcia C. Vogl and Richard G. Vogl of Santa Ana, Calif. The bridegroom’s mother, who is retired, worked in the mortgage division at a Chase Manhattan branch in Irvine, Calif. She was the supervisor of the document department. His father is a court commissioner on the Orange County Superior Court.
