Guillaume Suon

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Guillaume Suon
Born (1982-11-26) 26 November 1982 (age 39)
NationalityFrench, Cambodian
OccupationFilm director
Notable work

Guillaume Suon (born 26 November 1982) is a French-Cambodian filmmaker.

Career[]

Guillaume Suon has focused his first documentary films on Cambodia’s history and contemporary society.

Trained by the Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rithy Panh, Guillaume Suon is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus and a fellow of the Sundance Institute and the IDFAcademy.

Filmography[]

Year Film Genre Awards
2010 About My Father Documentary Runner Up at the AIBD World TV Awards 2011[1]

Jury Award at the FEMI 2012[2]

Special Jury Award at the Festival Internacional de Cine Político (FICIP) 2013[3]

2012 Red Wedding Documentary Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2012[4][5][6][7][8]

Aljazeera Golden Award at the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival 2013 (Qatar)[9][10]

Jury Prize at the Gdansk DocFilm Festival 2013 (Poland)[11]

Special Jury Prize at the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival 2013

Best South East Asian Human Rights Film at the FreedomFilmFest 2013 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)[12]

Special Mention Award at the Salaya International Documentary Film Festival 2014 (Thailand)[13]

2013 The Last Refuge Documentary Aung San Suu Kyi Award for ASEAN Films at the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival (HRHDIFF) 2014 (Yangon, Myanmar)[14]

Best SEA Documentary Award at the Freedom Film Fest 2014 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

2014 The Storm Makers Documentary Mecenat Award for Best Asian Documentary Film at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) 2014 (South Korea)[15]

Inspiration Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2015 (Durham, U.S.A.)[16]

“Windows on the World” Prize for the Best Feature Film at Milan's Festival of African, Asian and Latin American Cinema 2015[17]

Special Mention Award at the Salaya International Documentary Film Festival 2015 (Thailand)[18]

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References[]

  1. ^ "WORLD TV AWARDS - WINNERS & RUNNERS UP". AIBD website.
  2. ^ "Edition 2012" Archived 2013-11-11 at the Wayback Machine. FEMI website.
  3. ^ "Premiación del Argentina FICiP 2013" Archived 2013-08-02 at archive.today. FICIP website.
  4. ^ "Winners awards IDFA 2012 announced" Archived 2013-01-26 at WebCite. IDFA website.
  5. ^ "Documentary on forced Khmer Rouge weddings wins award". Joe Freeman, Phnom Penh Post, December 3, 2012.
  6. ^ "IDFA 2012 - Guillaume Suon about Red Wedding". Il Documentario, December 5, 2012.
  7. ^ "Récompense internationale pour un documentaire sur les mariages forcés pratiqués par le régime Khmer rouge" Archived 2018-12-20 at the Wayback Machine. Cambodge Post, December 5, 2012.
  8. ^ "Filmmaker Says Stigma from Khmer Rouge Forced Marriages Endures". Sok Khemara, VOA, January 1, 2013.
  9. ^ "10th Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival Winning Films" Archived 2013-05-25 at the Wayback Machine. Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival website.
  10. ^ "Red Wedding Film Wins Award in Qatar". Sok Khemara, VOA, June 7, 2013.
  11. ^ "Results of 11 edition of Gdańsk DocFilm Festival" Archived 2013-11-11 at the Wayback Machine. Gdańsk DocFilm Festival website.
  12. ^ "Winning films of the KOMAS FreedomFilmFest (FFF) 2013" Archived 2015-07-06 at the Wayback Machine. FreedomFilmFest website.
  13. ^ "Salaya Doc 2014: Awards for Singapore, Red Wedding and Behind the Screen". Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal.
  14. ^ "Land-Grab Documentary Takes Top Burma Prize at Human Rights Film Festival". Irrawaddy, June 20, 2014.
  15. ^ "BIFF 2014 Awards". BIFF website.
  16. ^ "Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Announces 2015 Award Winners". Full Frame Documentary Film Festival website, April 12, 2015.
  17. ^ "Awards of the 25° Festival del Cinema Africano, d’Asia e America Latina". Milan’s Festival of African, Asian and Latin American Cinema website, May 9, 2015.
  18. ^ "At home in our Asean community". Nation multimedia, March 31, 2015.


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