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Documentary by Carrollton filmmaker premieres on KERA on May 27

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Carrollton filmmaker Socheata Poeuv's documentary New Year Baby, which tells the story of her family's survival and escape from the Khmer Rouge political regime in Cambodia when she was a child, premieres nationally as part of the PBS series Independent Lens. It will be shown in Dallas on KERA television at 10:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 27.

The film, which won the Target Filmmaker Award for best documentary at the 2007 AFI Film Festival, uses animation to depict her family's memories of life in Cambodia. Although these segments deal with difficult memories, the story is ultimately quite hopeful.

Socheata is currently a Visiting Fellow at Yale University in the genocide program. She is the CEO of Khmer Legacies, an organization whose mission is to create a video archive about the Cambodian genocide.

Source: KERA

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