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In 1993, Geraldine Cox, a milkman's daughter from Australia, decided to devote her life to the children of Cambodia. Three years in the making, My Khmer Heart, documents Geraldine's fight to save her orphanage both during and after Prime Minister Hun Sen's bloody coup in 1997. Despite the dangers to her own life, due to her friendship with Hun Sen's bitter enemy, ousted Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Geraldine remains in Cambodia during the fighting. But later she is forced to leave and is separated from her children for five months. There is only one person who can help Geraldine remain in Cambodia: Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen. Click here to visit the Geraldine Cox orphanage.
Running time: 97 min., Year released: 2001
Close captioned?: N, Color?: Y
Avail. formats: VHS
ISBN: 1-55974-654-8
Language: English, Subtitled?: N
For classroom?: Y, Study Guide?: N
Grade level: 7th and up
Reviews: "This film absolutely cannot fail to captivate an audience...a powerful experience."
--The Hollywood Reporter
"Generates surges of genuine emotional involvement as it profiles the colorful and sometimes foolhardy Geraldine Cox...Gracefully shot and edited, featuring well-inserted music..."
--Variety
"A visual feast. As its multi-layered plot unfolds, it feels as if you are watching a lavish feature film."
--The Australian
"Fascinating...addresses the way that larger issues reverberate within an individual's universe. Geopolitics becomes a matter of orphaned children and firsthand experience with politicians who settle election disputes through beatings and killings. It makes distant matters seem very present..."My Khmer Heart" meets tough reality head-on."
--The New York Times
"A stirring choice for Public Library collections."
-- BooklistOther Credits: Producers: Janine Hosking, Leonie Lowe
Screenwriter-director: Janine Hosking
Directors of Photography: Rod Pollard, Noel Jones, Greg Barbera
Editor: David Schmidt
From ICandy Productions |
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Best Documentary, Hollywood Film Festival Editors Choice 2002, Booklist
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This title can also be found in: Australian Culture & History, Biographies, Cambodia & Cambodians, Cultural Studies, History, Hollywood Film Festival Award Winners, Politics, War |
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