Film maker wins documentary award (From The Oxford Times)

Film maker wins documentary award

12:00pm Saturday 31st July 2010 in

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OXFORD film maker Rob Lemkin received an award for his film about genocide in Cambodia from Oscar-winning film producer Lord Puttnam.

Mr Lemkin’s documentary film, Enemies of the People, provides first-hand accounts of the murderous Pol Pot regime.

Mr Lemkin won best feature documentary at the OXDOX international documentary film festival 2010. He is now in Cambodia, where the film is to have its premiere screening despite the Cambodian government’s strenuous efforts to prevent it taking place.

The trials of some of the perpetrators of Cambodia's genocide are now underway with a chief torturer under Cambodian tyrant Pol Pot’s rule this month jailed for 35 years for his part in the deaths of at least 14,000 people.

Mr Lemkin, 48, earlier received an award from Hollywood legend Robert Redford at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. At the end of the month the film will be released in cinemas across the United States,.

Father-of-four Mr Lemkin’s firm Old Street Films is based in Hurst Street, East Oxford.