Kavich Neang

Kavich Neang

Nascimento : , Phnom Penh, Cambodia

História

Kavich NEANG (1987, Cambodia) studied Music and Dance before graduating in Design in 2013. In 2010, he directed his first short film, A Scale Boy, as part of a documentary film workshop led by filmmaker Rithy Panh, who also produced his 2013 mid-length documentary film Where I Go. In 2014, he co-founded the independent production company Anti-Archive. His third short fiction, New Land Broken Road (2018), is part of a Southeast Asian omnibus which premiered in Singapore. He directed the documentary Last Night I Saw You Smiling (2019) and White Building (2021), which premiered at Venice Film Festival 2021.

Perfil

Kavich Neang

Filmes

Doi Boy
Doi Boy
Associate Producer
Na Tailândia, um refugiado cria uma nova identidade como profissional do sexo e se vê envolvido nos esquemas perigosos de um cliente, que podem levar a uma vida melhor.
White Building
White Building
Associate Producer
O aspirante a dançarino Samnang e sua família fazem parte de uma comunidade no Edifício Branco, um importante bloco de apartamentos e um marco cultural da capital cambojana. Suas vidas são subitamente destroçadas pela notícia da iminente demolição de sua casa para dar lugar a um novo empreendimento.
White Building
White Building
Writer
O aspirante a dançarino Samnang e sua família fazem parte de uma comunidade no Edifício Branco, um importante bloco de apartamentos e um marco cultural da capital cambojana. Suas vidas são subitamente destroçadas pela notícia da iminente demolição de sua casa para dar lugar a um novo empreendimento.
White Building
White Building
Director
O aspirante a dançarino Samnang e sua família fazem parte de uma comunidade no Edifício Branco, um importante bloco de apartamentos e um marco cultural da capital cambojana. Suas vidas são subitamente destroçadas pela notícia da iminente demolição de sua casa para dar lugar a um novo empreendimento.
Sunrise in My Mind
Sunrise in My Mind
Associate Producer
A young woman working late at night at a beauty salon gives into her restrained interest in a young man who spends his evenings driving Phnom Penh's streets by motorbike as a delivery man.
California Dreaming
California Dreaming
Editor
Two women of different backgrounds encounter one another at an oceanfront resort. They then discover a hidden bond that allows them to escape from their realities.
Last Night I Saw You Smiling
Last Night I Saw You Smiling
Director of Photography
Kavich Neang documents the final days of the White Building in Phnom Penh, an architectural landmark he had lived in since birth.
Last Night I Saw You Smiling
Last Night I Saw You Smiling
Director
Kavich Neang documents the final days of the White Building in Phnom Penh, an architectural landmark he had lived in since birth.
New Land Broken Road
New Land Broken Road
Director
Phnom Penh at night. Three young hip-hop dancers drive a single motorbike and stop on a muddy deserted road. Nick leaves the others to look for an iPhone he heard was lost in the area. Piseth and Thy discuss their hopes and doubts, and Piseth shows his best Michael Jackson moves. They meet Leakhena, a young female street vendor whose cart is full of colors.
Three Wheels
Three Wheels
Director
On a lonely night, Tuc Tuc driver Nath meets a woman who reminds him of his past. Returning home, he confesses to his wife that he wants to move. This realization ultimately reveals the unspoken realities of their marriage dating from the Khmer Rouge period.
Fragment
Fragment
Writer
Fragment is an omnibus film celebrating the strength and diversity of South-East Asian independent cinema. Made up of a collage of ten stories, each story distinctively embraces the other's subjectivities through the collective sentiments of vulnerability and fortitude. This film is commissioned by the Asian Film Archive (AFA) for its tenth anniversary celebrations.
Fragment
Fragment
Director
Fragment is an omnibus film celebrating the strength and diversity of South-East Asian independent cinema. Made up of a collage of ten stories, each story distinctively embraces the other's subjectivities through the collective sentiments of vulnerability and fortitude. This film is commissioned by the Asian Film Archive (AFA) for its tenth anniversary celebrations.
Where I Go
Where I Go
Director
Pattica is a Cambodian-Cameroonian, who never met his father and grew up in an orphanage in Phnom Penh. The discrimination he faces because of his skin color compels him to discover more about his identity and origins.
Cambodia 2099
Cambodia 2099
Kavich
Phnom Penh, Cambodia. On Diamond Island, the country's pinnacle of modernity, two friends tell each other about the dreams they had the night before.
A Scale Boy
A Scale Boy
Director
Kavich Neang’s first film is a short documentary following Sory Chan, a 14-year-old boy who is living in Phnom Penh apart from his family. A student of Cambodian classical music, Sory lives with his mother’s friend after his mother fled a debt she couldn’t afford to pay back. Each evening after class, he carries a scale outside in a popular part of the city and asks people to weigh themselves for a small amount of money. In this urgent film, we witness Sory’s day in class, his nightly routine and a particularly difficult conversation with his mother who he meets on the street.