Guillaume Suon

Guillaume Suon
Born	26 November 1982
Nationality	French, Cambodian
Occupation	Film director
Notable work	Red Wedding The Storm Makers

Guillaume Suon (born 26 November 1982) is a French-Cambodian filmmaker.

Career

Guillaume Suon has focused his first documentary films on Cambodia’s history and contemporary society.

Trained by the Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rithy Panh, Guillaume Suon is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus and a fellow of the Sundance Institute and the IDFAcademy.

Filmography

Year	Film	Genre	Awards
2010	About My Father	Documentary	Runner Up at the AIBD World TV Awards 2011[1] Jury Award at the FEMI 2012[2] Special Jury Award at the Festival Internacional de Cine Político (FICIP) 2013[3]
2012	Red Wedding	Documentary	Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2012[4][5][6][7][8] Aljazeera Golden Award at the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival 2013 (Qatar)[9][10] Jury Prize at the Gdansk DocFilm Festival 2013 (Poland)[11] Special Jury Prize at the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival 2013 Best South East Asian Human Rights Film at the FreedomFilmFest 2013 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)[12] Special Mention Award at the Salaya International Documentary Film Festival 2014 (Thailand)[13]
2013	The Last Refuge	Documentary	Aung San Suu Kyi Award for ASEAN Films at the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival (HRHDIFF) 2014 (Yangon, Myanmar)[14] Best SEA Documentary Award at the Freedom Film Fest 2014 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
2014	The Storm Makers	Documentary	Mecenat Award for Best Asian Documentary Film at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) 2014 (South Korea)[15] Inspiration Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2015 (Durham, U.S.A.)[16] “Windows on the World” Prize for the Best Feature Film at Milan’s Festival of African, Asian and Latin American Cinema 2015[17] Special Mention Award at the Salaya International Documentary Film Festival 2015 (Thailand)[18]

References

1. "WORLD TV AWARDS - WINNERS & RUNNERS UP". AIBD website.
2. "Edition 2012". FEMI website.
3. "Premiación del Argentina FICiP 2013". FICIP website.
4. "Winners awards IDFA 2012 announced". IDFA website.
5. "Documentary on forced Khmer Rouge weddings wins award". Joe Freeman, Phnom Penh Post, December 3, 2012.
6. "IDFA 2012 - Guillaume Suon about Red Wedding". Il Documentario, December 5, 2012.
7. "Récompense internationale pour un documentaire sur les mariages forcés pratiqués par le régime Khmer rouge". Cambodge Post, December 5, 2012.
8. "Filmmaker Says Stigma from Khmer Rouge Forced Marriages Endures". Sok Khemara, VOA, January 1, 2013.
9. "10th Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival Winning Films". Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival website.
10. "Red Wedding Film Wins Award in Qatar". Sok Khemara, VOA, June 7, 2013.
11. "Results of 11 edition of Gdańsk DocFilm Festival". Gdańsk DocFilm Festival website.
12. "Winning films of the KOMAS FreedomFilmFest (FFF) 2013". FreedomFilmFest website.
13. "Salaya Doc 2014: Awards for Singapore, Red Wedding and Behind the Screen". Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal.
14. "Land-Grab Documentary Takes Top Burma Prize at Human Rights Film Festival". Irrawaddy, June 20, 2014.
15. "BIFF 2014 Awards". BIFF website.
16. "Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Announces 2015 Award Winners". Full Frame Documentary Film Festival website, April 12, 2015.
17. "Awards of the 25° Festival del Cinema Africano, d’Asia e America Latina". Milan’s Festival of African, Asian and Latin American Cinema website, May 9, 2015.
18. "At home in our Asean community". Nation multimedia, March 31, 2015.