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Filmmaker · Cambodia

Yvon Hem

Died in 2012

Yvon Hem began in cinema as a young production assistant on the shoot, in Cambodia, of a Marcel Camus film in 1963, then founded the family production company Baksey Thaansuo. Before 1975 he made more than a dozen films, including a version of the Rama epic for his first feature film and marvellous tales drawn from Khmer legends. He survived the years of Democratic Kampuchea and produced the first feature film made after their fall. He died on 10 August 2012, aged seventy-five.

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