In June 2010 I received the following email from New York based correspondent and Cambodian cinema afficianado Claus Mueller:   From: Claus Mueller <filmexchange@gmail.com> To: The CamboFest Team <info@cambofest.com> Subject: Re: combofest lite december 2010 Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:35:29 -0400   Hello JR In late April we communicated about  CamboFestLite.....Since I may be in Phnom Penh in December I am most interest...

World’s longest red carpet to unroll at CamboFest, Cambodia Film Festival The world’s longest red carpet, measuring 26.5 kilometers, will unroll at the upcoming CamboFest Cambodia Film Festival (www.cambofest.com),linking the venue town of Kampot with the seaside coastal town of Kep while shattering existing records for a red carpet event. The lengthy carpet, donated by the Zhejiang Da Guanyuan carpet company of Zhejiang Province, China, is currently on its way to the Cambodian p...

CAMBODIA's film and video festival is to be held this year at Kampot, a small  attractive town about four hours drive south of the capital Phnom Penh. Cambofest, the country's first internationally recognized independent movie festival, will commence its third season on 04 December, running through 06 December, though the organisers say there may be a " sneak preview” on 03 December. Film categories at the festival include: Fiction Features & Shorts * Doc Feat...

FW: Urgent: Cambodia's only independent film festival still faces funding shortfall--but supporters are standing up for the cause![Phnom Penh, Cambodia, May 24, 2009]CAMBOFEST, Cambodia's first and only internationally recognizedindependent film festival (now in it's 3rd year) is still facing asignificant funding shortage, three weeks into a Spring/Beginning ofrainy season funding drive. Despite international acclaim and kudosfrom industry professionals as varied as Julie and Roger Corman, thefe...

The second annual Cambofest, Cambodia's first internationally recognized film festival, will open under the stars on Dec. 26 in outdoor venues near the famed ancient Khmer temples of Angkor Wat in Siem Reap.The three-day festival will show 50 films from around the world including independent features, documentaries, shorts, animation and films dealing with social issues, organizers said Thursday.Festival director Jason Rosette said the event would be "extremely grass-roots and lo-fi" because of ...