Film about acid-scarred singer airs Tuesday

Miss Tath Marina before the acid attack.

By the Gazette-Times

The documentary film “Finding Face,” which recently premiered at The International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva, will make its Northwest premiere at Oregon State University on Tuesday.

The screening will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Gilfillan Auditorium, 2601 S.W. Orchard Ave., Corvallis. It is free.

The film, directed and produced by Skye Fitzgerald and OSU faculty member Patti Duncan, documents the case of Tat Marina, a young woman who was attacked with acid in 1999.

At 16, Marina was a rising star in Phnom Penh’s karaoke music scene. She was coerced into an abusive relationship with Cambodia’s undersecretary of state, and subsequently attacked with acid.

The film took more than two years to make and involved multiple trips to Cambodia and to the Boston area, where Marina now lives.

Duncan, an associate professor in the Women Studies Program at OSU, wrote the script for the film.

Fitzgerald, founder of Spin Film and producer and director of 2006’s “Bombhunters,” co-produced the film and is the principal cinematographer. Both will be in attendance on Tuesday.

The event is sponsored by OSU’s Women Studies Program.

For more information, see www.spinfilm.org or www.findingface.org.