Lost Loves finds way to Oscar race
By Patrick Frater
Lost Loves (pictured), an historical drama, has been selected as Cambodia's contender for the foreign-language Academy Award.
Directed by Chhay Bora, Lost Loves is only the second film ever to be proposed for an Oscar run by Cambodia. The first was Rithy Panh's Rice People in 1994, which was not shortlisted for a nomination.
The selection of Lost Loves was made by the recently formed Cambodia Oscar Selection Committee, which received approval from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences late last year, COSC chairman Mariam Arthur confirmed to Film Business Asia.
The film was written by Bora's wife Khauv Sotheary, who also appears in the film in the role of her mother, a middle-class woman who lost much of her family due to the actions of Cambodia's notorious Khmer Rouge.
The film had its premiere at a 2010 festival in Cambodia and went on local commercial release in January this year. That coincided with key United Nations hearings into the genocides which occurred between 1975-79.
The COSC selectors include two directors, two actors, a producer, cinematographer and an editor.
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