New Land Broken Road
Runtime : 15mins
Country : Cambodia
Dir. : Kavich Neang
Schedule : Sun 23, June 2019 (13.00)
Genre : Fiction
World Premiere : Singapore International Film Festival 2018
Synopsis
Phnom Penh at night. Three young hip-hop dancers drive a single motorbike and stop on a muddy deserted road. Nick leaves the others to look for an iPhone he heard was lost in the area. Piseth and Thy discuss their hopes and doubts, and Piseth shows his best Michael Jackson moves. They meet Leakhena, a young female street vendor whose cart is full of colors.
Director’s Biography
Kavich Neang (b. 1987, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) studied music and dance at a young age before graduating in professional design in 2013. In 2010, he directed his first short film, A SCALE BOY, as part of a documentary film workshop led by Khmer-French filmmaker Rithy Panh, who also produced his 2013 mid-length documentary film WHERE I GO. In 2014, he co-founded the independent production company Anti-Archive along with Davy Chou, Steve Chen, and Park Sungho. In 2015, he directed his first two short fictions, THREE WHEELS, which premiered at Busan, and GOODBYE PHNOM PENH. A third short fiction, NEW LAND BROKEN ROAD, premiered at the 2018 Singapore International Film Festival. Kavich Neang has also joined Busan’s Asian Film Academy, Locarno’s Summer Academy, Talents Tokyo, Docs by the Sea, Luang Prabang Talent Lab, and Cannes Cinéfondation’s Résidence. He has recently participated in panel discussions on memory and cinema in Chiang Mai, Singapore, and Glasgow. He is currently developing his first narrative feature, WHITE BUILDING, and he has recently completed a separate but simultaneous and related documentary, LAST NIGHT I SAW YOU SMILING, which won the NETPAC Award following its world premiere in competition at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam.