00:00It's a story about a story that follows my family and my survival of living
00:06through the Khmerish genocide from 1975 to 1979 in which a quarter of the
00:12population or approximately 1.7 to 2 million Cambodians died out of a
00:17population of 7 million people and that is the so the large theme of the movie
00:23but the real story is about what it takes for a family a child a mother a
00:28brother and a sister and all the work dedication sacrifice and love and joy
00:33and just support that they had to give to each other in order to make it out of
00:39the killing fields alive.
00:45Anybody in their mid 40s remembered remembers the war and everybody in the
00:51country was affected by the war so everybody on set had a connection there
00:57was a lot of talking there was a lot of talking before there was a lot of kind
01:01of coming together there was there was yes therapy on set if needed but really
01:07Cambodian people there's a there's a community and the community came together
01:11and there was a there was a collective so when we'd have heavy scenes you see
01:17people just find each other discuss discuss discuss until there was some kind
01:23of cathartic outcome for me there's a one thing that I hope that this story very
01:34original very personal can open the eyes of the people you know the young
01:42generation now don't believe when you when they read the text sometime when they
01:49they they believe only when they watch images and it's a fiction film of course but
01:55based on the true story and maybe after watching the film they can move to to learn
02:05more about humanity about solidarity about what is democracy what is the
02:12the freedom you know it's a it's also a kind of education for the people the
02:19refugee crisis that's one aspect there are 65 million people displaced there are
02:23many people and I hope that when for people focusing on that particular issue
02:27and they want to know to understand or connect to what it is when they say a
02:32refugee this is long is somebody who had to flee war and persecution and came you
02:40know was given asylum in America with half of her family was half stayed behind and
02:46and she's such a contribution she's such an extraordinary woman and I think that
02:52says a great deal of how people miss represent misunderstand they see a refugee
02:56family as a burden they do not see the extraordinary person that has survived so
03:00much that is so strong that is coming into your country that can contribute so
03:05much and you're so lucky to have them so I hope it says that I also hope that you
03:10know you watch this film this and the children in war children in war there
03:14are so many little long lungs in the world right now right now as we speak
03:19there's some little girl in Syria Yemen little you know girl number kind state
03:25who's crying and screaming and wondering where the world is and if she's ever
03:29going to get any help and so I would like to to think that when you watch this
03:34film you're not immune to the needs of today
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