Award Winning Filmmaker to Speak at Texas Tech

Socheata Poeuv ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DATE: April 23, 2013
CONTACT: Karin Slyker, karin.slyker@ttu.edu
(806) 742-2136

WHAT: The Vietnam Center and Archive Guest Lecture Series with Socheata Poeuv

WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday (April 25)

WHERE: Helen DeVitt Jones Auditorium, Museum of Texas Tech University,
4th Street and Indiana Avenue.

EVENT: An award winning filmmaker, scholar and social activist, Socheata Poeuv is founder and CEO of Khmer Legacies, an organization whose mission is to create a video archive of testimonies from survivors of the Cambodian genocide. Poeuv was born in a Thai refugee camp after her parents fled Cambodia in the midst of the Pol Pot regime. They emigrated to the U.S. when she was two years old.

Poeuv’s presentation will include a screening of her 2006 film, “New Year Baby,” which documents her return to Cambodia to learn what happened to her family during the terror of the Khmer Rouge. The film has won multiple awards, including Amnesty International’s “Movies That Matter” Human Rights Cinema Award and the Crystal Heart Award for expressing “hope and respect for the positive values of life.” The film was broadcast nationally as part of PBS’s “Independent Lens” series.

The lecture and film are cosponsored by the Museum of Texas Tech University. Admission is free and open to the public.

New Year Baby is the first film in the Vietnam Center and Archive’s fifth Annual APAHM Film Festival. For more information about this and the other films in the festival, including show times, see the 2013 Film Festival page.

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CONTACT: Mary Saffell, associate director, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University, (806) 742-9010, or mary.saffell@ttu.edu.