Khmer Mekong Films
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Khmer Mekong Films is a major Cambodian film and video production company based in Phnom Penh
, capital city of Cambodia
.
It grew out of the team created and trained by the BBC in 2004 to make a 100-episode TV drama about HIV
for Cambodian television. Taste of Life was funded by the British Government through DFID and managed by the BBC World Service Trust
.
With funding finished in 2006, producer Matthew Robinson stayed in Cambodia to form KMF with the Taste of Life Khmer production team.
To date, KMF has produced two Cambodian cinema films, Vanished, 2009, & Staying Single When
, 2007, and dozens of television dramas, documentaries, information films, educational films, television commercials and public service TV spots.
KMF aims to help develop the Cambodian film industry
moribund since the country was devastated by civil wars (1967–75), the Khmer Rouge
regime (1975–79) and occupation by Vietnam
(1979–89).
Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh is the capital and largest city of Cambodia. Located on the banks of the Mekong River, Phnom Penh has been the national capital since the French colonized Cambodia, and has grown to become the nation's center of economic and industrial activities, as well as the center of security,...
, capital city of Cambodia
Cambodia
Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...
.
It grew out of the team created and trained by the BBC in 2004 to make a 100-episode TV drama about HIV
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
for Cambodian television. Taste of Life was funded by the British Government through DFID and managed by the BBC World Service Trust
BBC World Service
The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...
.
With funding finished in 2006, producer Matthew Robinson stayed in Cambodia to form KMF with the Taste of Life Khmer production team.
To date, KMF has produced two Cambodian cinema films, Vanished, 2009, & Staying Single When
Staying Single When
Staying Single When, released in Cambodia's main cinema, 'Kirirom' in March 2007 and premiered on CTN, Cambodia's most popular TV channel, in October 2007 , is a 100-minute romantic comedy from the production company Khmer Mekong Films .In Staying Single When, KMF pioneered the use of "real voices"...
, 2007, and dozens of television dramas, documentaries, information films, educational films, television commercials and public service TV spots.
KMF aims to help develop the Cambodian film industry
Cinema of Cambodia
Cinema in Cambodia began in the 1950s, and many films were being screened in theaters throughout the country by the 1960s, which are regarded as the "golden age"...
moribund since the country was devastated by civil wars (1967–75), the Khmer Rouge
Khmer Rouge
The Khmer Rouge literally translated as Red Cambodians was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, who were the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan...
regime (1975–79) and occupation by Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
(1979–89).
External links
- Khmer Mekong Films website
- Khmer Mekong Films in TimeTime (magazine)Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
magazine - Vanished review in Hollywood's 'VarietyVariety (magazine)Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
' - Vanished review in Cambodia's 'Phnom Penh PostPhnom Penh PostThe Phnom Penh Post is a daily English-language newspaper published in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Founded in 1992 by publisher Michael Hayes, it is Cambodia's oldest English-language newspaper. It is printed in full-color tabloid format. The Phnom Penh Post is also available in Khmer language...
' - Vanished information on Khmer Mekong Films website
- Staying Single When information on Khmer Mekong Films website
- Taste of Life
- BBC World Service Trust