MY KHMER HEART
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Australia
2000 / Video / Color / 97 min.
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MON C�UR KHMER
In 1993, Geraldine Cox, a milkman's daughter from Australia, decided to devote her life to the children of Cambodia by establishing an orphanage. This film documents her fight to save her orphanage both during and after Prime Minister Hun Sen's bloody coup in 1997. The lives of Cox's orphans are threatened and two teenage boys are forced to join Hun Sen's army. Later they will be killed in battle. Despite dangers to her own life due to her friendship with Hun Sen's bitter enemy, ousted Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Cox remains in Cambodia during the fighting, but is later forced to leave. She is separated from her children for five long months. The cameras capture an emotional reunion. The complexity of Cambodia's politics and its sinister implications are revealed as Cox seeks out Prince Ranariddh in exile, at his hideaway in Thailand. Although the Prince assures Cox that he will help protect her children, Hun Sen has warned Ranariddh that he could face imprisonment should he return to the country. But in Cambodia, nothing is as it first seems, and just as the volatile Mekong River changes direction in midstream, Prince Ranariddh and his wife will eventually betray Cox. There is only one person who can help Cox remain in Cambodia and keep her orphanage -- Hun Sen. Cox gets her children ready to dance for him...
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Script: Janine Hosking.
Phot.: Rod Pollard, Noel Jones, Greg Barbera.
Ed.: David Shmidt.
Mus.: Steve Hopes.
Narr.: Geraldine Cox, Peter Ustinov.
Prod.: Leonie Lowe, Janine Hosking, iCandy Productions, 71 London Street, Enmore, Sydney NSW 2042 (Australie), t�l. & fax: (61-2) 955 04 925, e-mail: [email protected].
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Janine Hosking
Janine Hosking is an Australian journalist who began her career at the Swan Hill Guardian in Victoria, and has worked as a reporter, producer and director on some of Australian television's best known documentary and current affairs programs. She has earned numerous honours for her written and broadcast work, including the prestigious Walkley Award for Tjandumarra O'Shane (1998). |
