Photo: Amnesty Finland

Amnesty Finland and the Trade Union Solidarity Centre of Finland (SASK) present a screening of Who Killed Chea Vichea? in Helsinki on Thursday, April 9. Special guest: Vichea's wife Chea Kimny, who now lives in Finland with their children.


Post-film panel discussion with:

• MEP Heidi Hautala
• STTK Head of International Affairs Risto Kousa
• Cambodian journalist Sophorn Sar
• Executive Director at Pro Ethical Trade Finland Lotta Staffans

For more details see SASK's web site.
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The Myanmar (Burma) premiere of Who Killed Chea Vichea? is at Myanmar Deitta's Witness Yangon Documentary Arts Space on 18 September, 2014.

Hosted by Mote Oo Education, the screening is followed by a short presentation from Katie Julian and Kaung Hla Zan, who discuss how the organization has turned the documentary into a bilingual teaching and learning resource for Myanmar classrooms, and a Q&A with producer Rich Garella (via Skype).

Free public screening of the film, shown with both Burmese and English subtitles.

"A devastating exposé of life and death that reveals the inner workings of a dictatorship … an extraordinary film."  — Phil Robertson, Human Rights Watch

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Who Killed Chea Vichea? returns to Rhode Island for a screening at Providence's historic Hamilton House. Followed by discussion with producer Rich Garella.

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Due to statements made by Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan (see “Deportation, Jail Threatened if Film Screened,” in today’s Cambodia Daily on page 16), those who planned to attend the screenings of Who Killed Chea Vichea? scheduled for this afternoon and evening should check the following web pages for updated information and please forward this to those you know who may be interested.


We will also post updates on the film’s Facebook page.

As of this writing and to my knowledge, the screenings are planned to go forward as scheduled, at 5pm (Khmer) and 7pm (English) at the new location:


Update: 
The screenings have been canceled. Loud Mouth Films respects the right of the host involved to make this decision in light of recent developments.

Regarding the above article "Deportation, Jail Threatened if Film Screened" in the Daily:

Government spokesperson Phay Siphan is cited saying that the government is concerned that the film would influence public opinion. That is exactly the issue here. In a country that respects freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, the people are free to assemble, discuss as they please, and expose themselves to any kind of information and form their opinions freely based on that and on their own conscience.

Cambodian officials have never to our knowledge provided any legal basis for a ban on Who Killed Chea Vichea? or any specific film. In stating that they ban a film without providing any legal basis, these officials demonstrate that Cambodians do not live under the rule of law, but under the rule of power. Two decades after the Paris Peace Accords, and a decade after the assassination of Chea Vichea, the rule of law exists only as a smokescreen. It vanishes whenever those in power find it convenient to blow it away.

Meanwhile the killers of Chea Vichea and those who ordered the killing are still "at large." It is our intent to honor Chea Vichea and many others who struggle, and continue to struggle for basic human rights and a better and freer Cambodia. 

However the government is making the screening of this film into a test of its respect for freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and the rule of law. So far today it has failed that test, as it consistently fails, because its fundamental nature is to feel threatened by these freedoms.

Rich Garella, Producer, Who Killed Chea Vichea?
for Loud Mouth Films

Note: The statements above are made by Rich Garella and Loud Mouth Films. No part of them should be attributed to any other individuals or organizations.

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The welcome would have been by Rong Chhun, President of the Cambodian Federation of Unions.

Both screenings would have been followed by Q&A with:

• Chhorn Sokha, Program Officer for Labor Rights, CLEC
• Rich Garella, Producer, Who Killed Chea Vichea?
• Dr. Kek Galabru, President, Licadho
• others might have been announced. 

Sponsored by
Sithi Hub/CCHR
The Overseas Press Club of Cambodia

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Congratulations to the Cambodian Center for Human Rights for having the courage to screen Who Killed Chea Vichea? in Phnom Penh.

Who Killed Chea Vichea? examines the case and demonstrates that Cambodian authorities from the police on up were instrumentally involved in the murder. This case and many others show that impunity is still the rule in Cambodia. It must end.

Read the story at Radio Free Asia (English translation here).

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The acclaimed documentary Who Killed Chea Vichea? will be shown for the first time in Lisbon on Wednesday, 3 July. Thanks to the 7th EuroSEAS Conference 2013, the screening is open to the public as well as to those attending the conference, with free admission for all.


Who Killed Chea Vichea? will be shown in the original English and Khmer version, with English subtitles, and will be followed by a discussion with producer Rich Garella.

See poster in English or in Portuguese.

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Who Killed Chea Vichea? screens in a double feature with Enemies of the People in Mae Sot on Tuesday May 28 at 8pm.

At the ExPPACT Foreign Correspondents' Club, 206 Intarakhiri Road. Subtitled in English and Burmese.

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On March 7 Who Killed Chea Vichea? screened at Shippensburg University as part of the International Studies Film Series "From Human Wrongs to Human Rights: A Global Undertaking."

The screening was followed by Q&A with producer Rich Garella, and was free and open to the public.


Sponsored by the International Studies Program, the History/Philosophy Department, and the Office of Social Equity. Download International Studies Newsletter with article on the screening here.

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The 3rd annual Luang Prabang Film Festival: Celebrating Southeast Asian Cinema, which runs from December 1 to 5, features the Laos premiere of Who Killed Chea Vichea?, in its impressive lineup of films.

"Standout films this year include Who Killed Chea Vichea?, a documentary about the assassination of a Cambodian union leader and the ensuing cover-up." -- TIME magazine

The complete festival program is here.

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Just announced: Who Killed Chea Vichea? will screen in competition at the 25th Annual Foyle Film Festival, running from November 21st through 25th in in Derry, Northern Ireland.

There's a great lineup of films -- check out the full program! 

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art6 presents the exclusive Richmond screening of the Peabody Award-winning documentary Who Killed Chea Vichea?, a highly charged murder mystery and political thriller focusing on the assassination of a Cambodian labor leader. Produced by Richmond native Jeffrey Saunders.

There will also be shorts by Mary Beth Reed, abstract hand-painted films mixed with film images, and a film by Charlie Bissey about a young woman watching her own abandonment unfold.

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Who Killed Chea Vichea? screens for the very first time in Berlin, at Moviemento Kino on October 30.

We are proud to double-feature with We Want (U) to Know, an extraordinary film in which villagers from all around Cambodia take the camera in their own hands to document what they have gone through during and after the Khmer Rouge era.

The films are followed by Q&A with Ella Pugliese, director of We Want (U) to Know and Rich Garella, producer of Who Killed Chea Vichea?.

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The University of Calgary hosts a screening of Who Killed Chea Vichea? on Monday, September 17th.

The screening is free and open to the public, and includes a discussion after the film with producer Rich Garella.

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Who Killed Chea Vichea? is featured in multiple screenings at Imagining Cambodia, the Cambodian Studies Conference hosted by Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.

Co-sponsors are the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Ohio University and the University of Massachusetts–Lowell. Producer Rich Garella will speak on the Media and Film panel.

These screening are not open to the public, but the new film Lost Loves will screen for the public at 8:00 pm in Cole Hall. Filmmaker Chhay Bora will be there to offer commentary.

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Who Killed Chea Vichea? will be the opening film at the 9th Annual JEEVIKA: Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival, organized by the Centre for Civil Society and taking place from August 31 to September 2 in New Delhi, India.


This will be Who Killed Chea Vichea?'s India premiere. Thirteen films were selected in the professional category, along with five student films; see the full program.

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The Peabody Award–winning investigative documentary Who Killed Chea Vichea? screens for the first time in New Zealand, in the country's premiere documentary film festival, Documentary Edge Festival 2012 ... and takes top honors in the Human Rights category!

One sunny morning, a motorcycle pulled up to a newsstand in Phnom Penh. Chea Vichea, Cambodia's most prominent labor leader, looked up from his paper and was executed on the spot. Pressured by rights groups and foreign aid donors, the police arrested two local men. They were sentenced to twenty years in prison. Were they guilty, or was their conviction part of a larger plan? Starting at the scene of the murder, director Bradley Cox's investigation leads far beyond the local police, through the courts, to the upper echelons of the ruling party. Banned in Cambodia.

In Auckland, at Event Cinemas Newmarket, 77 Broadway, Newmarket:


Tickets will be available from the festival web site. Please check out the whole list of 72 films — for multi-film passes see this page.

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The 26-minute documentary The Trap of Saving Cambodia will screen first, followed by Q&A with director Tim Sorel, then Who Killed Chea Vichea? and Q&A with producer Rich Garella.


The forum is organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Ohio University, with primary sponsorship of the Ohio Humanities Council and Arts for Ohio.

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Please join the Sohbet Society for Human Rights for a screening of Who Killed Chea Vichea? at the University of South Australia on April 27. This screening is free and open to the public!

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Who Killed Chea Vichea? got a great turnout on the opening night of the Chiang Mai Documentary Arts Festival, which ran February 24-26, 2012.

The evening's program opened with the short Burma: Sexual Violence as a Weapon and a discussion with its director, Preethi Nallu, and continued with Who Killed Chea Vichea? at 7:30. Check out the rest of the weekend's schedule here!

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