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| A poster for the film “Rice Field of Dreams,” which will be shown in Long Beach on April 13 |
04/02/2011
By Greg Mellen, Staff Writer
Long Beach Press Telegram (California, USA)
LONG BEACH – Although filmmaker Daron Ker had only flickering memories of his homeland, he still felt a special kinship to Cambodia.
The flickering Ker best remembered were of films being shown on white bed sheets at the Thai refugee camp where he and his family lived before being relocated to California.
Those memories have endured and sustained Ker through the years as he grew up in the United States and earned a degree in film and television from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco.
When he finally got a chance to tell his first Cambodian tale on film, it was through the most American of pastimes – baseball.
The result is “Rice Field of Dreams,” a documentary filmed in Cambodia and Thailand about the Cambodian national baseball team and the run-up to and through its first international competition in 2007 in Thailand.
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