'Bad Friends', a good short film from Boscoliwood Sihanoukville

Sihanoukville (DonBosco Khmer). Borah is a good boy: he respects his parents and studies very much. But Seiha and Ro no. They surround Borah with invitations that will lead the boy to another way, the way of drugs, a nightmare that makes him another person, far from the respect of their parents and the love for books. A cold and friendless court send him to prison. What is going to happen when Borah comes out of that gloomy place? These kind of stories are the ones that the students of the Don Bosco Audiovisual Center are telling in their movie lessons.
The stories must be set in the Cambodian context, showing the Khmer traditions and cultural environment, while addressing modern problems.

'In the beginning I feel shy to play Ro, because he is quite opposite to what I am...' said Sophal, 20, 'but I remember that our small productions are for teaching children and young people to follow only good examples, like obey the parents and study,' he adds.

One of the most impacting scenes is when Borah meets his parents in the prison. The boy cries before the impossibility of his mother to do something for him.

'This is the moment we repeated more,' explains Rotah, 18, 'because we want it very real. We use menthol in the eyes and I cried like a baby,' he says laughing.

The program of social communication and journalism is already at its third generation. The audiovisual studios, that were destroyed one year ago by fired, were rebuilt thanks to foreign benefactors as a space for the students to develop skills in communication. It is possible to find the videos in the Vimeo Journalism Online channel in what is already known inside Don Bosco Sihanoukville as the Boscoliwood (http://vimeo.com/channels/114810) The subtitling in English is not the better and audio should be improved, but this is a first experience.