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FRIDAY, OCT 2, 3:30PM

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

Post screening panel
discussion with Sara Colm,
Terry Fitzpatrick and Douglas
Gillison.

THE STORM MAKERS

(Dir. Guillaume Suon, Cambodia, 66 min.)
Aya was a slave. At the age of 16, the young Cambodian peasant was sold to
work as a maid in Malaysia, where she was exploited and beaten during two
years without receiving any salary. Now that she has returned to her village just
as poor as when she left, what is left of her humanity?
The Storm Makers traces modern-day slavery in Cambodia, by uncovering the
fate of this young woman and following, in parallel, the daily lives of two human
traffickers, a local recruiter and the head of a trafficking network. Cambodians
call them « mey kechol »: the storm makers.
From the impoverished remote villages to the bustling urban centre of Phnom
Penh, the film reveals a unique perspective on the exploitation of Cambodia’s
rural population and questions what is the price of a life in a country
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