Samnang
Directed by
USA
2012
22 min
- English
- Khmer
Comedy drama, Short
From the director of ENDING SONG presented at the Sofia Meeting
A recent Cambodian immigrant, working as a donut baker at night, lives a life of solitude until he's ordered to train a new worker - the owner's sister, and fears the loss of his job. Will he discover that life could be a bit sweeter with another baker in the kitchen?
Credits
- Cast
- Jonathan Nitasneak Dok
- Kaylene Men
- Victory V. Heng
- Screenplay
- Vanara Taing
- Cinematography
- Carlos Diaz
- Editing
- Varun Viswanath
- Production
- AMERICAN FILM INSITUTE
Asaph Polonsky
Israel
Born in Washington DC 1983, Asaph was raised In Israel where he directed, wrote and independently produced two shorts films ZIPPER and IN BED AT 10 P.M. Asaph also directed award-winning music videos, worked in various television projects and was awarded the Irwin and Sheila Allen Scholarship and an America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship. Asaph has recently graduated the director’s track at the AFI in Los Angeles and with his thesis film SAMNANG which received the prestigious Technicolor Student Grant. In 2016, his feature film ONE WEEK AND A DAY was selected for the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes.
