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"WORLD TV AWARDS - WINNERS & RUNNERS UP" . AIBD website.
Jury Award at the FEMI 2012"Edition 2012" . FEMI website.
Special Jury Award at the Festival Internacional de Cine Político (FICIP) 2013"Premiación del Argentina FICiP 2013" . FICIP website. 2012 Red Wedding Documentary Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2012"Winners awards IDFA 2012 announced" . IDFA website."Documentary on forced Khmer Rouge weddings wins award". Joe Freeman, Phnom Penh Post, December 3, 2012."IDFA 2012 - Guillaume Suon about Red Wedding". Il Documentario, December 5, 2012."Récompense internationale pour un documentaire sur les mariages forcés pratiqués par le régime Khmer rouge" . Cambodge Post, December 5, 2012."Filmmaker Says Stigma from Khmer Rouge Forced Marriages Endures". Sok Khemara, VOA, January 1, 2013.
Aljazeera Golden Award at the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival 2013 (Qatar)"10th Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival Winning Films" . Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival website."Red Wedding Film Wins Award in Qatar". Sok Khemara, VOA, June 7, 2013.
Jury Prize at the Gdansk DocFilm Festival 2013 (Poland)"Results of 11 edition of Gdańsk DocFilm Festival" . Gdańsk DocFilm Festival website.
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)"Winning films of the KOMAS FreedomFilmFest (FFF) 2013" . FreedomFilmFest website.
Special Mention Award at the Salaya International Documentary Film Festival 2014 (Thailand)"Salaya Doc 2014: Awards for Singapore, Red Wedding and Behind the Screen". Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal. 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)"Land-Grab Documentary Takes Top Burma Prize at Human Rights Film Festival". Irrawaddy, June 20, 2014.
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)"BIFF 2014 Awards" . BIFF website.
Inspiration Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2015 (Durham, U.S.A.)"Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Announces 2015 Award Winners". Full Frame Documentary Film Festival website, April 12, 2015.
“Windows on the World” Prize for the Best Feature Film at Milan's Festival of African, Asian and Latin American Cinema 2015"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.
Special Mention Award at the Salaya International Documentary Film Festival 2015 (Thailand)"At home in our Asean community" . Nation multimedia, March 31, 2015. 2019 The Taste of Secrets Documentary Allocine
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