To Speak makes waves

A film shot entirely on location in Cambodia, with first-time Khmer actors, led by a central performance from 12-year-old Ratana Peuw, is making waves in the film world. To Speak is the brainchild of writer and director Craig Ower and focuses on Ratana's brave attempts to improve her and her village's economic conditions by accepting a controversial development savings program. The film, 104 minutes long, got its first showing at the Montreal World Film Festival at the back-end of 2007, though like many films about Cambodia, post production took a long time to finalize after the film was shot two years before. The Tabitha Foundation is the NGO organization that co-funded the film in terms of resources – manpower, meals, transport etc and they even had houses built for the villages that were involved in the film. Find out more at the movie's website here.
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