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| Daron Ker, a filmmaker born in Cambodia, in his office in San Francisco. (Robert Durell, For The Times / April 10, 2011) |
His ‘Rice Field of Dreams’ has helped touch off a new engagement with the country that his family once fled, including hopes for a film school.
April 10, 2011
By Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times (California, USA)
Filmmaker Daron Ker’s earliest childhood remembrances come from the three torturous years he spent in a malaria-ridden concentration camp in the center of Cambodia’s killing fields.
His next, more pleasant memories are of watching movies projected on a tattered bedsheet in a refugee camp just across the Thai border.
“The one film that I really loved was ‘Spartacus,’” Ker says enthusiastically. “It’s weird, because I didn’t understand anything. But it was the most powerful thing I had ever seen.”
So powerful it fueled a circuitous journey to the United States, through film school and, after a nearly 30-year absence, back to his estranged homeland to direct his first full-length documentary, “Rice Field of Dreams,” which has its world premiere locally this week.
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