ECHOES FROM TOMORROW
ECHOES FROM TOMORROW
This project gives place to three new, talented female Cambodian directors to express their voices by producing their first-ever short films. Anti-Archive’s mission centers on the three women who have worked behind the scenes (or onscreen as actresses) to produce its films since 2014: Danech SAN, Sreylin MEAS, and Kanitha TITH.
IN FIGURES
- December 2017
- USD$15 000
- Nearly USD$28 700
THE PROGRAM
The project was launched as a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.com in December 2017, with the goal to raise USD$15 000 in 15 days, in order to fund the production of the three short films. This goal was far surpassed, and the campaign ultimately raised a total of nearly USD$28 700, both on and offline.
The world of filmmaking rests upon an absurdity: a new filmmaker can demonstrate their skill only when given the opportunity to make their first short film. But in countries without adequate arts infrastructure, a debut short film is the hardest thing to finance, because it creates little revenue, and the filmmaker has yet to earn any trust. That’s why Anti-Archive aimed to provide space to those voices for a more creative, sentimental, and provocative future. If successful now, we hope this is just the beginning of a Cambodian arts movement attuned to the young, the ignored, the female, the local, the real.
The project has so far fully completed two films.
FILMS FROM THE PROGRAM
- A MILLION YEARS
World premiere in competition at Busan; Best Southeast Asian Short Film, Singapore; Arte Award, Hamburg International Short Film Festival.
- CALIFORNIA DREAMING
World premiere at Singapore International Film Festival 2019, Special Mention.
- THE CRAB
In editing (at the time of the original page).
VIDEO
PEOPLE
- Danech San, Sreylin Meas, Kanitha Tith