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ITVS/WETA TV 26 Community Cinema will present a free community preview screening of the movie New Year Baby this Sunday, May 18 at 2 PM at the Calvary Baptist Church (755 Eighth Street, NW) in the Penn Quarter. This film garnered a number of awards and is the retrospective documentary tale of a Cambodian family fleeing the Khmer Rouge to find a new life in the United States [synopsis].
Community partners for the screening include the Social Action and Leadership School for Activists (S.A.L.S.A.) of the Institute for Policy Studies, Southeast Asia Action Resource Center, and Calvary Baptist Church.
Filmmaker, Socheata Poeuv, will participate in a Q & A following the screening. Born in a refugee camp on April 13 — the Cambodian New Year’s Day — Socheata Poeuv has always been called “the lucky one” by her family. Her parents, Ma and Pa, survived the Khmer Rouge, one of the cruelest political regimes ever documented, eventually escaping to Thailand and then moving the entire family to Texas. Once in the United States, Ma and Pa never talked about what happened in Cambodia, focusing instead on giving the kids a “normal American life.” What happens when the family returns to Cambodia for a visit? You’ll have to show up at the screening to find out.
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