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Kalyanee Mam (born in Battambang, Cambodia) is an award-winning filmmaker whose film, ''A River Changes Course'', which she directed and produced, has won several awards, including the Grand Jury Award for World Cinema Documentary at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and the Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2013 San Francisco International Film Festival. == Early life == Mam was born in Battambang, Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime, to Vann Theth Mam and Sok Sann Mam. She is the fifth of seven children and the fourth of four girls. Mam’s family was living in Pailin Province when the Khmer Rouge came to power in April 1975. They were evacuated to Battambang Province and her family members immediately divided and forced to labor in separate work camps. Mam and her family attempted to escape the Khmer Rouge camps twelve times, each time failing until the Khmer Rouge fell from power in January 1979, when she and her family finally escaped through forests and landmines to Kao-I-Dang, a refugee camp at the Thai-Cambodian border. Through the passage of the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act and with the assistance of the International Rescue Committee, Mam and her family resettled in Houston, TX in 1981 before finally relocating to Stockton, CA a city in northern San Joaquin Valley known for its large Cambodian population. In Stockton, Mam’s father worked as a caseworker assisting South East Asian refugee youth within the juvenile justice system. Mam’s mother continued to support her family as a homemaker, raising seven children. Mam received a full scholarship to attend Yale University. Inspired by her family’s history and motivated to learn more about her Cambodian identity, Mam volunteered at the Yale Cambodian Genocide Program with Professor Ben Kiernan, who became her senior thesis advisor. In summer 1998, Mam returned to Cambodia for the first time since she and her family fled the country seventeen years earlier. Mam spent the summer as a research intern at the Documentation Center of Cambodia, led by Executive Director Youk Chhang, and interviewed subjects throughout Cambodia for her senior thesis on “The Endurance of the Cambodian Family Under the Khmer Rouge Regime.” The paper was published in an anthology Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda: New Perspectives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.yale.edu/gsp/publications/new_perspectives.html )〕 After graduating from Yale, Mam received a Charles P. Howland Fellowship to conduct research on “Crimes Committed Against Women During the Khmer Rouge Regime”.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v27.n33/story109.html )〕 Interviews gathered from her research are currently being used in the Cambodian Tribunal to try the most responsible leaders of the Khmer Rouge.Legal career Mam went on to study law at UCLA School of Law, with a special focus on immigration and refugee law. During law school, Mam worked with International Bridges to Justice at the National Legal Aid Center in Beijing, China, the Refugee Law Clinic at the University of Witswatersand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, where she assisted immigrant victims of domestic violence file for permanent residence status in the United States under the Violence Against Women Act. After graduating from law school, she worked for two years with a legal consulting firm in Maputo, Mozambique and then spent six months working with USAID and the Ministry of Justice (Iraq). While working in Iraq, Mam secretly conducted interviews of her Iraqi colleagues in her bedroom and documented their life stories under the Saddam Hussein regime, the Sanctions against Iraq. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kalyanee Mam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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