Poppy Goes to Hollywood

In the Life of Music follows the journey of Hope, a young American girl visiting her relatives in Cambodia for the first time. Determined to learn the history of her parents, Hope discovers the story of how one song, “Champa Battambang” played an integral part of three generations. Starting with how her parents met and fell in love in 1968, to their fight for survival during the war-torn Khmer Rouge years of the 1970’s and finally finishing in the modern day with Hope getting the answers she has longed for.

What started as a simple escort mission will soon turn to chaos as the prisoners of Koh Kla take over the prison grounds. A special task force gets trapped in the prison will have to fight their way out for survival, to protect a key witness.

Three best friends, still children, promise each other to stay together until the day they die. But life separates them, and 17 years later, one is a cop, one is a gangster, and one is dead. On their way to the funeral of their dead friend, the gangster, having just stolen a valuable sapphire from his gang, uses his cop friend as cover to flee the country. Chased by both gangsters and police, the two friends are joined by a beautiful and mysterious girl. Their road trip, filled with gun battles and odd encounters, provides all of them with a way to realize their dreams.

The story of Aniccam follows an ivory smuggler, a crooked policeman, and Narith, a young construction worker running away into the night with a mysterious suitcase, coveted by everyone that sees it. Inspired by the rapid evolution of Sihanoukville, a fishing village turned into the next Macao of South East Asia as a result of Chinese investment, Aniccam (Khmer for ‘impermanence’) straddles the tension between cultural alienation and belonging, and the muddiness of individual betterment in a climate of economic colonialism.