In 2025, I experienced significant highs and lows, marked by professional challenges and personal struggles. Key lessons include the importance of recognizing problems without fixation, the impact of compromises on boundaries, financial realities, trusting processes while remaining cautious, and the decisive role of leadership. After all these sensations, I remain hopeful for future growth through 2026.
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“S’Art” for Beautiful and Clean Battambang
Co-organized by Phare Ponleu Selapak, a Battambang art association, S’art Urban Art Festival showcases diverse modern art for its 05th edition in November 2025. Highlights include live performances, unique culinary experiences, and a nostalgic film screening in a vintage cinema, reflecting Cambodia’s vibrant artistic scene.
Seeking Peace: Cambodia’s Response to Thailand’s Actions
The author shares personal insights on the Cambodia-Thailand territorial disputes, emphasizing the complex historical relationship and growing nationalism. They express pride in Cambodia’s preference for peace despite ongoing conflict. The post advocates for dialogue, urging Thai leaders to halt hostilities and reflect on the need for reconciliation and cooperation.
3 months in the same community, with 3 different lessons
After completing the “Let’s Document Cambodia” project in 2022, Sunflower Film Organization returned last April to conduct an investigation workshop in Kampong Thom province. Six indigenous youth produced two documentaries, showcasing their skills despite limited resources, while emphasizing the importance of community engagement and local identities.
Sri Lanka — Three Local Specials
As you have followed my blog (or personal website now down for a while!), half of my posts would be to review the last place or country I traveled. This time around, explore Sri Lanka or Colombo, to be exact, with me through “our” accelerated workshop of Asia Peace Innovators Forum (APIF). Which I attended…… Continue reading Sri Lanka — Three Local Specials
Rewinding 2024 for Four Perspectives
2024 was obviously overloading for me, but rich in experiences and perspectives. Four of which, I’d like to share with you here, after my long hiatus, due to some technical calibration! Last year, I seemed to take on more than I could “chew”, but manage to make them through. Besides my regular mission with SFA…… Continue reading Rewinding 2024 for Four Perspectives
4 Days in Salzburg, 4 Humbling Discoveries!
5 Days in Holland, 5 Experiences to Make Film Programming Whole!
As Let’s Document Cambodia (LDC) has been an integral part of Sunflower Film Organization (SFO), with the current grant call proposed by Movies that Matter Festival (MtM), I am applying for our mobile screening project in 12 indigenous communities, across Cambodia. Since the same festival announced their recruitment of festival programmers from the Global South…… Continue reading 5 Days in Holland, 5 Experiences to Make Film Programming Whole!
Manila for “Many” Chances
As I have taken up a new challenge this year, Southeast Asian Video Festival for Children (SEAVFC), I was supposed to be attending our 4th edition kick-off meeting in Hanoi. I thought then that, although the destination country is not new to me, at least, Hanoi feels fresh to my experience. As serendipity has it,…… Continue reading Manila for “Many” Chances
Seoul, our Artistic Souls for Six Reasons
Yeah, I’ve been back to (South) Korea, within five years after I graduate from Busan Asian Film School (AFiS)! This trip, however, sent me/us to Seoul for our advanced arts education course in last December. Out of my sheer curiosity, I had applied for the basic course back in September and was selected to attend…… Continue reading Seoul, our Artistic Souls for Six Reasons
How Much Do You Know about “Community Arts”?
Although I have heard a lot about this wide concept of “community arts”, little did I know my practices had anything to do with such disciplines. Yet, I applied for Mekong Cultural Hub’s call for “Community Collaboration Experiment” in last April. You got it right: an “experiment”, not a “project”, as I have “implemented in…… Continue reading How Much Do You Know about “Community Arts”?
CSFF-XII with Five New Challenges
If you’ve followed my blog very closely, you notice Chaktomuk Short Film Festival (CSFF) has always been my annual highlight. For me, its new edition brings about new challenges. In this post, I’m going to share with you with five, which may benefit your event management skills or life experience in general! Briefings and Debriefings…… Continue reading CSFF-XII with Five New Challenges
Chiang Mai – Serene Beacon of Warmth and Freedom
The Perfect Motion – a Moving and Magical Movie
New Year, New Team, New Adventure(s)
Another Year with CSFF, Another Round of Humbling Experiences
I kept thinking CSFF X-Edition was unconventional in that we hosted it all online, just owing to COVID19 side-effects. Little did I know recovery from that crisis would affect this year’s festival. The pandemic aside, Xi-Edition was faced with numerous challenges, both in human and financial terms. So what you’re going to read is about…… Continue reading Another Year with CSFF, Another Round of Humbling Experiences
How the Pandemic Redefines My Overseas Trips!
After two long years of hiatus, Cambodia has finally opened its borders, especially with Thailand, since early this year. My first overseas trip was made for a medical checkup with my father, by a hired taxi from Phnom Penh to Surin, Thailand. My second trip was experienced with my extended family to Nakhorn Rachsima on…… Continue reading How the Pandemic Redefines My Overseas Trips!
