MISS LANDMINE trailer from Miss Landmine on Vimeo.
Dear friends Khmer and far!
We are proud to announce the WORLD PREMIERE of the brand new full-length documentary MISS LANDMINE at the San Fransisco Documentary Festival (USA) on Saturday, October 16. See the trailer for MISS LANDMINE here:
http://vimeo.com/15485224
Throughout the whole of 2009, a Canadian/American film crew followed closely the process of setting up the controversial and spectacular Miss Landmine Cambodia 2009 beauty pageant.
Commissioned by Canadian broadcasters CTV, directed by award-winning director Stan Feingold and beautifully photographed by Brian Johnson, MISS LANDMINE unites solid craftsmanship with poetic vision, musicality and a refreshing sense of humour. The film condenses one year of personal and public, everyday and political stories into 71 minutes and 11 seconds that each are a testament to the spirit of the project, the beauty and resilience of its participants and the exciting, funny, moving and -eventually- increasingly dangerous journey that we all made from start to (not yet) finish(ed).
MISS LANDMINE also contain new and stirring revelations about the role of the local expat aid community in manipulating the Cambodian government, who up to that point had been supporting the project wholeheartedly, into banning Miss Landmine from going ahead in Cambodia. More about this later.
The film will have its European premiere in Norway at the Bergen International Film Festival October 21, thereafter going on to Stuttgart, Germany on the Globians DocFest in November. A TV version will also be broadcasted on CTV later in the year.
As the project is banned by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and the government has denied the candidates to meet the organisers again, the true stars of the film will sadly not be present at any of the premieres. However, we hope that all you out there in the free world will spread the word and eventually see the film in a theater near you.
We bid you welcome! Everybody has the right to be beautiful!
All the best from the Miss Landmine team
www.sfindie.com/movie/?fid=49
www.miss-landmine.org/cambodia
http://vimeo.com/15485224
Throughout the whole of 2009, a Canadian/American film crew followed closely the process of setting up the controversial and spectacular Miss Landmine Cambodia 2009 beauty pageant.
Commissioned by Canadian broadcasters CTV, directed by award-winning director Stan Feingold and beautifully photographed by Brian Johnson, MISS LANDMINE unites solid craftsmanship with poetic vision, musicality and a refreshing sense of humour. The film condenses one year of personal and public, everyday and political stories into 71 minutes and 11 seconds that each are a testament to the spirit of the project, the beauty and resilience of its participants and the exciting, funny, moving and -eventually- increasingly dangerous journey that we all made from start to (not yet) finish(ed).
MISS LANDMINE also contain new and stirring revelations about the role of the local expat aid community in manipulating the Cambodian government, who up to that point had been supporting the project wholeheartedly, into banning Miss Landmine from going ahead in Cambodia. More about this later.
The film will have its European premiere in Norway at the Bergen International Film Festival October 21, thereafter going on to Stuttgart, Germany on the Globians DocFest in November. A TV version will also be broadcasted on CTV later in the year.
As the project is banned by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and the government has denied the candidates to meet the organisers again, the true stars of the film will sadly not be present at any of the premieres. However, we hope that all you out there in the free world will spread the word and eventually see the film in a theater near you.
We bid you welcome! Everybody has the right to be beautiful!
All the best from the Miss Landmine team
www.sfindie.com/movie/?fid=49
www.miss-landmine.org/cambodia
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