Another two-hour Depth Perception special!
Part I of San Francisco International Film Fest 56 coverage.
In a live interview, director Kaylanee Mam discusses A River Changes Course (winner, Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize). The documentary traces the impact of development and globalization on Cambodians in three rural villages where the predominant occupations of fishing, farming, and are rapidly being destroyed. Mam, whose family fled Cambodia when she was a toddler, describes what it was like to visit her homeland for the first time as adult; the challenges of filming in such isolated and inaccessible locations; and why she left lawyering to become a filmmaker.

A River Changes Course screens
Saturday April 27, 7:00 p.m. at the Sundance Kabuki;
Sunday April 29, 6:30 p.m. at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley
Sunday May 5, 1:00 p.m., at the New People Cinema.

PLAYLIST
(All songs written by David Mendez, from A River Changes Course)
Ferry
Factory Girls Struggle
Adrift