It’s a bittersweet morning in many ways – today is the final day of my shoot and once we wrap – I will have finished the production end of this amazing journey. I know it will be a while before I will make it back to Cambodia. I have a bit of Cambodia coming to [&hellip…
Theresa screams likes a girl. (She just said – I AM a girl, thank you.) We’re on top of the roof of the FCC or French Colonial Club having drinks with some Cambodian friends, Borom and Ny, and celebrating the end of the shoot – when a gecko drops off the ceiling and lands on [&hellip…
Theresa finally gets the call she has been waiting for. Her luggage has finally arrived at Phnom Penh airport and is ready to be picked up. She heads out to the airport for the third time since she has arrived, to claim it. However – she can’t actually get in it! Someone along the way [&hellip…
Has it already been a week since we arrived in Phnom Penh? Each time I’ve been here before, time seems to stand still. When you spend each day focusing constantly on the harsher realities of the plight of the street and garbage children, sometimes the days can seem very long and draining. It’s been a [&hellip…
This morning we interview Prey Vannak, director of the children’s rights office for the Cambodian League of Human Rights. He speaks eloquently and passionately about the issues facing the children. Sex trafficking, lack of access to health care, domestic abuse and lack of education are all serious issues that need attention and activism. He is [&hellip…
I can tell how Cambodian I’ve become because I now think nothing of jumping on the back of a motto bike, helmet-less, to zip haphazardly through the streets of Phnom Penh to get where I am going. The side effect of riding a lot of mottos where you must cling to your driver is that [&hellip…
Every day since we arrived it has rained every afternoon. Not the heavy downpour of monsoon season – but a healthy dose nonetheless. As it is certainly NOT suppose to raining in March here – a fact which is also baffling our Cambodian crew – it makes you wonder. Megan speculated on an early morning [&hellip…
These things I know are true. Shoots never follow a schedule. One should ALWAYS wear sunscreen even if you think you are shooting inside. And there are 525 steps leading up to the ancient temple at Ou Doung Mountain – steep, steep, steps – in the blazing sun. Which, indecently, tends to be bad for [&hellip…
Apparently what I consider early is not early at all (something I’m sure Theresa told me on previous trips when I would refuse to get up at 5am with her.) By six am there’s a large group of people dancing and doing aerobics by the river. Flailing about at the crack of dawn while looking [&hellip…
It’s hard to fathom that it has been over two years since Small Voices began as an off the cuff pitch at the premiere of Hotel Rwanda. It has been a challenging, rewarding and humbling journey. On the verge of the final production shoot – I’m a few hours away from leaving for the airport [&hellip…