Lida Chan (born 25 March 1980) is a

Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailan ...

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Career

Lida Chan joined Bophana Center in 2006, where, as an

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, she specializes in the analysis of Khmer Rouge

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. She also works as a radio

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for

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, where she covered the trial of former Khmer Rouge cadre Duch. In 2010, Lida Chan turned into documentary

filmmaking Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, cast ...

after being trained by Cambodian

and producer

Rithy Panh Rithy Panh ( km, ប៉ាន់ រិទ្ធី; born April 18, 1964) is a Cambodian documentary film director and screenwriter. The French-schooled director's films focus on the aftermath of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambod ...

Filmography

References

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