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Brand Story to Watch: A River Changes Course

“All I want is a liveable wage” said Khieu Mok, one of 300,000 Cambodian garment workers who cannot survive on a wage of $61 US a month.

Hers is one of three stories followed in A River Changes Course, a film by Kalyanee Mam, which chronicles how globalization is marginalizing so many Cambodians who had previously made their living from the rivers, farmlands and forests.

Speroway will host a screening of A River Changes Course at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema – 506 Bloor St W, Toronto — on March 20 at 6:30pm.

The event, hosted by ET Canada’s Rick Campanelli, will also feature a Q and A with Mam; proceeds will fund Speroway’s work in Cambodia.

The film is a partnership with the Documentation Centre of Cambodia and has won the Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary and the San Francisco International Film Festival Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Why we love it:

  • the film is traveling to 60 universities and villages across Cambodia in the next year to foster dialogue in remote regions, bringing Cambodians together, giving voice to those who were previously voiceless
  • the film uses story to make a complex issue happening on the other side of the world meaningful here
  • the public is invited to help make a screening of the film in Cambodia possible giving the viewer something tangible to do

Thanks to our good friends at SoChange for telling us about this project. We will be watching it with great interest.

Susan McLennan

Susan McLennan

Founder at ReImaginePR
Susan McLennan helps brands become better storytellers both through the media and through direct and digital communications. She is an award-winning communicator with a background in television production who has secured media coverage through some of the top media outlets in the world and created content that has won hearts and changed minds locally, nationally and internationally.
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