Guillaume Suon
| Guillaume Suon | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 November 1982 |
| Nationality | French, Cambodian |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Notable work | |
Guillaume Suon (born 26 November 1982) is a French-Cambodian filmmaker.
Career
Guillaume Suon has focused his first documentary films on Cambodia’s history and contemporary society.
Trained by the Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rithy Panh, Guillaume Suon is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus and a fellow of the Sundance Institute and the IDFAcademy.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Genre | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | About My Father | Documentary | Runner Up at the AIBD World TV Awards 2011[1]
Jury Award at the FEMI 2012[2] Special Jury Award at the Festival Internacional de Cine Político (FICIP) 2013[3] |
| 2012 | Red Wedding | Documentary | Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2012[4][5][6][7][8]
Aljazeera Golden Award at the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival 2013 (Qatar)[9][10] Jury Prize at the Gdansk DocFilm Festival 2013 (Poland)[11] Special Jury Prize at the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival 2013 Best South East Asian Human Rights Film at the FreedomFilmFest 2013 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)[12] Special Mention Award at the Salaya International Documentary Film Festival 2014 (Thailand)[13] |
| 2013 | The Last Refuge | Documentary | Aung San Suu Kyi Award for ASEAN Films at the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival (HRHDIFF) 2014 (Yangon, Myanmar)[14]
Best SEA Documentary Award at the Freedom Film Fest 2014 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) |
| 2014 | The Storm Makers | Documentary | Mecenat Award for Best Asian Documentary Film at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) 2014 (South Korea)[15]
Inspiration Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2015 (Durham, U.S.A.)[16] “Windows on the World” Prize for the Best Feature Film at Milan’s Festival of African, Asian and Latin American Cinema 2015[17] Special Mention Award at the Salaya International Documentary Film Festival 2015 (Thailand)[18] |
References
- ↑ "WORLD TV AWARDS - WINNERS & RUNNERS UP". AIBD website.
- ↑ "Edition 2012". FEMI website.
- ↑ "Premiación del Argentina FICiP 2013". FICIP website.
- ↑ "Winners awards IDFA 2012 announced". IDFA website.
- ↑ "Documentary on forced Khmer Rouge weddings wins award". Joe Freeman, Phnom Penh Post, December 3, 2012.
- ↑ "IDFA 2012 - Guillaume Suon about Red Wedding". Il Documentario, December 5, 2012.
- ↑ "Récompense internationale pour un documentaire sur les mariages forcés pratiqués par le régime Khmer rouge". Cambodge Post, December 5, 2012.
- ↑ "Filmmaker Says Stigma from Khmer Rouge Forced Marriages Endures". Sok Khemara, VOA, January 1, 2013.
- ↑ "10th Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival Winning Films". Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival website.
- ↑ "Red Wedding Film Wins Award in Qatar". Sok Khemara, VOA, June 7, 2013.
- ↑ "Results of 11 edition of Gdańsk DocFilm Festival". Gdańsk DocFilm Festival website.
- ↑ "Winning films of the KOMAS FreedomFilmFest (FFF) 2013". FreedomFilmFest website.
- ↑ "Salaya Doc 2014: Awards for Singapore, Red Wedding and Behind the Screen". Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal.
- ↑ "Land-Grab Documentary Takes Top Burma Prize at Human Rights Film Festival". Irrawaddy, June 20, 2014.
- ↑ "BIFF 2014 Awards". BIFF website.
- ↑ "Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Announces 2015 Award Winners". Full Frame Documentary Film Festival website, April 12, 2015.
- ↑ "Awards of the 25° Festival del Cinema Africano, d’Asia e America Latina". Milan’s Festival of African, Asian and Latin American Cinema website, May 9, 2015.
- ↑ "At home in our Asean community". Nation multimedia, March 31, 2015.