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PROGRAM 10, 12:00 p.m.
Directors Guild of America, Theatre Three
MONKEY DANCE
(United States/Cambodia, 2004) Dir./Wtr.: Julie Mallozzi
MONKEY DANCE profiles three teens coming of age in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Children of Cambodian refugees, they inhabit a gritty blue-collar
world shadowed by their parentsí nightmares of the Khmer
Rouge. Traditional Cambodian dance links them to their parentsí
culture, but fast cars, hip consumerism, and new romance pull harder.
The three teensí parents fled terror and genocide, making
their way on foot through the jungles of northern Cambodia to refugee
camps over the Thai border. In the early 1980s, they resettled in
Lowell, a historic New England mill city now home to the countryís
second-largest Cambodian community. For these parents, Lowell held
the hope of safety, employment, and a chance to faithfully rebuild
some of what was shattered by the Khmer Rouge. But for their children,
Linda, Samnang, and Sochenda, the city offers a dizzying array of
choices ñ many of them risky. MONKEY DANCE is the story of
how these kids navigate the confusing landscape of urban adolescence
and ultimately begin to make good on their parentsí dreams.
Video, 65 minutes, Color, Documentary
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