Polen Ly
Cultures of Resistance Awardee — Cambodia
Polen Ly is a Cambodian filmmaker whose narratives depict indigenous people struggling against commercial logging and hydropower dam construction. His films have won numerous awards and been selected to screen at both local and international film festivals.
Ly received a Cultures of Resistance Award (CoR Award) and is using the award to support his current projects: a short documentary called Cemetery of Green Souls, which won an honorable mention in the Tribeca Film Institute’s IF/Then Shorts Global Pitch competition, and his first featured documentary, The Tongue Of Water.
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