Screenings

Premiere Human Rights Festival in Hollywood

"A tale so intimate and suspenseful that is has the feel of a novel."
Anne-Marie O'Connor, LA Times.

Premiere in the village where the film was being made 

'A powerful new documentary released in part to help Cambodians prepare mentally for the upcoming Khmer Rouge tribunal. ... "Deacon of Death" is a highly personalized documentary about a woman's confrontation with the man she says massacred her family. The movie, which won Best Documentary at the 2004 Dutch Film Festival, is in Khmer with English-language subtitles. It will be shown at some local health centres and most likely aired on television.'

Cambodian Daily, 20 July 2005

Screenings and Festivals

September 2009
Broadcast in a series of Golden Calf winners by Holland Doc.

December 2006

Selected for the European Film Awards

Premiere 2004 Dutch Film Festival

Golden Calf for best feature length documentary. The jury:  “A moving story in which a Cambodian woman dares to confront the man whom she holds responsible for the death of her family. Convincingly and with respect the director has depicted this almost classic drama of good and evil, crime, punishment and forgiveness.”

Other film festivals

IDFA Amsterdam, DogMa Slovenia, DocumentaMadrid, Amnesty International Film Festivals Amsterdam, West Hollywood, Pittsburgh, EBS Documentary Film Festival South Korea Sept, Human Rights Festival Barcelona, Documentary Film Festival Leipzig, Int. Film Festival in Cork, Int. Film Fest. Rome, Thessaloniki and many others.

2009: a new DVD with extra’s

Many organisations in Cambodia want to use the film in villages, like TPO, Save the Children, Racha and Healthnet International. We received a grant from the Dutch Embassy in Bangkok to make a new DVD of the film, with extra’s: discussions in the village after seeing the film together with Mr Karoby, discussions with students in the capital Phnom Penh, etc

The film will be used in other countries as well and will be broadcasted in Cambodian television.

Screening in the village

Cambodian Daily, July 2005: After screening in the village:

'When the film “Deacon of Death” was shown at the Ta Pein commune office here on July 21, the former Khmer Rouge commune security chief now known as Karoby had to have his blood pressure checked. “The eyes of the villagers would look at the film and then look at the face of Karoby,” deputy commune Chief Duch Sokhom said Monday. “He looked at the ground. He was very afraid the villagers would ask him questions.”

For more information:

www.drsfilm.tv and HealthNetInternational: www.tpopom.org