New Year Baby Past and Present

Spring 2009 News

On June 13th New Year Baby will screen at the Whitney Humanity Center of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion on "When Filmmakers Work With Refugees: Goals, Achievements, Dangers, Dissapointments" with filmmakers Christian Karim Chrobog, Socheata Poeuv, Zach Niles, and Charles Vogl. The event will be sponsored by the Yale Summer Film Institue and IRIS. For more information contact (888)-ART-IDEA (278-4332).

On May 28th Socheata will moderate the panel discussion "Honoring Asian Amercians and Commemorating our Legacy". The event will take place at 7 PM at the World Headquarters of the Hartford Financial Servcies Group, Inc, and will be sponorsed by the National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP-CT.) For more information contact info@naaapct.org

On May 27th UCLA will screen New Year Baby

On May 8th Socheata gave a presentation on rescuing behavior for the "Behavior of Rescuers of Genocide Victims" Colloquium at Yale University

Socheata and NEW YEAR BABY showcased at the National Association of College Activities in Nashville, TN. Over 150 schools contacted her agent to possibility invite Socheata to speak

Socheata spoke at Colgate University

Fall 2008 News

We are happy to announce that Socheata just returned from Los Angeles where she received the iWitness Human Rights Award from Jewish World Watch (www.jewishworldwatch.org). Jewish World Watch works to mobilize synagogues, their schools, their members and the community to combat genocide and other egregious violations of human rights around the world.

Read press about the event here:

New Year Baby Wins Award
Keeping Their Memories Alive

Socheata conducted a workshop about interviewing with Cambodian youth in Lowell, MA who are part of a community-based organization there called Light of Cambodian Children (http://www.lccweb.org). We are beginning to record testimonies in Lowell, MA, the second largest Cambodian American community.

Socheata spoke recently at Tufts University, Endicott College, Stonehill College and Phillips Academy Andover.

We are also creating our first board of directors for Khmer Legacies with our first board meeting scheduled for December 20, 2008 at Yale University in New Haven, CT.

July 2008 News

I'm writing from my road trip and pilgrimage which in all will last 2.5 months and take me from Massachusetts to Texas and Calcutta, India with points in between. Today I'm in Madison, WI where I shot a bit on our new HDDV camera. Next week I will meet up with filmmakers Steve Bogner and Julia Reichert (LION IN THE HOUSE) in OH. This pilgrimage is the first time in over 4 years I have not worked on NYB daily. Even read a book for fun while staying with friend Pam Putney on an island in Massachusetts. Socheata Poeuv has been recongnized by strangers more than once now. Friday the dog is still more popular than I am.

New Year Baby DVD sales are so strong that as of Tues. night it is listed as a best selling film of more than 2,000 films on the FilmBaby.com website. We did not predict this. The film will be even more widely available next month. I am learning how many lives are influenced this story from the notes that come in.

The final work on the Cambodian language version is underway.

I will be in Kerala, India next month with some of the NYB crew and donors. You can join us if you like. www.LoveJoyPardon.com/India.

New Year Baby is a finalist for the
PBS Independent Lens Audience Award

Vote Here: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/award2008tie.html

New Year Baby Soundtrack is available on iTunes

New Year Baby is now available at:
- www.FilmBaby.com - discount gifts packs available
- www.Indiepixfilms.com
- www.CollectiveEye.org
- www.Caachi.com
More distributors soon to be anounced
Socheata Poeuv's Fellowship renewed for 2008-2009 at the Yale Genocide Studies Program

-Charles H. Vogl
Producer

June 2008 News

New Year Baby completes its national ITVS Community Cinema tour of 40 cities.
Socheata Poeuv goes to the University of Wisconsin to attend SEASSI (Southeast Asian Studies Institute) Cambodian language training for 2 months.
Socheata Poeuv interviewed on NPR programs HERE ON EARTH and THINK.
New Year Baby covered in DALLAS MORNING NEWS, FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM, DENVER POST and others.

May 2008 News

New Year Baby DVDs available!
Order special price now: New Year Baby DVD

New Year Baby airs on National PBS Independent Lens May 27th

Producer Charles Vogl attends INPUT 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa as a CPB fellow
NL3 Audio creates sound design for Cambodan language version.
Director Socheata Poeuv attends screenings in Washington D.C., San Francisco & Los Angeles.
New Year Baby is finalist for INPUT 2008
Producer Charles Vogl finishes first year of divinity school!

April 2008 News

Socheta speaks to Boston College and Harvard University
ITVS Community Screening series rolls out nationaly in the United States
- Find a screening: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/getinvolved/cinema/
DVDs mastered by Cine-O-Matic and go into production
Socheata Poeuv's new organization Khmer Legacies hosted it's first fundraising event in NYC- A South Eastern Culinary Night- www.KhmerLegacies.org
- Over 200 attend
Cambodian language translation is recorded in New York and San Francisco coordinated by Envivo Live Media.
New Year Baby wins the AUDIENCE AWARD at the Wisconsin Film Festival

March 2008 News

New Year Baby airs nationaly in the Netherlands
DVD extras are created
- Interview with Composer Gil Talmi
- Interview with Animator Paul Fierlinger
- Socheata's director commentary

February 2008 News

$8,000 matching grant offered for gifts toward outreach

The New York Times will profile Socheata Poeuv in March

Socheata spoke to her Alma Mater Smith College

DVD creation for home and educational use is begun

Socheata went on 10 city U.S. Southeast tour with NEW YEAR BABY

Socheata spoke at California State University Long Beach Genocide Conference

NEW YEAR BABY is the opening film for the Amnesty International Seattle Human Rights Film Festival

January 2008 News

National PBS Broadcast scheduled MAY 27th 2008 on

Teachers & Organizations can create
FREE Community Screenings

funded by

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/getinvolved/organize
ITVS Community Cinema is a screening series of select films from INDEPENDENT LENS. They work with local partnering organizations who want to show the film to their community. ITVS screenings are free, open to the public, and followed by a panel discussion or other presentation. ITVS provides local partnering organizations with a package of resources free of charge.

Other News:

Socheata Poeuv profiled by www.changents.com as one of the nation's best young change agents
- www.changents.com/changeagents/socheata_poeuv
The Smith Alumnae Quarterly profiled Socheata Poeuv and New Year Baby as a documentary filmmaker of social change

A note from a teacher:

Dear Socheata Poeuv,

My name is Victor Chacon and I am a school teacher at L.L. Hotchkiss Elementary School, Dallas, TX ...
My students are 9, 10, and 11 year-old newcomers from refugee camps. They are from Burma, Thailand, Afghanistan, Iran, and Africa . I have students whose parents were born in refugee camps. They are very sweet and smart, ‘eager learners’… When they heard about you, their eyes grew with joy and excitement and they wanted to write a “book” to you. In this book, they want to write about their lives and add some pictures. They will be working on it during the next week and I will send it to you…

You are an inspiration and a model for them. They know now that there are people who faced similar experiences and have become very successful.

Sincerely,

Victor Chacon-Carrasco
ESL-Newcomer Teacher
L.L. Hotchkiss Elementary School

December 2007 News

United Nations Screening - NY, NY
Sponsored by -

The UN Department of Political Affairs
The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
The UN Development Programme
Search for Common Ground

First Khmer Legacies Outreach event - Bronx, NY

Initiative on Religion and Politics screening at Yale University, Divinity School - New Haven, CT

CAAAV (Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence) Screening - NY, NY

November 2007 News

A special note from a special audience member (one U.S. high school student):
"I'm terribly sorry for crying in front of you today. I had so many things to say to you but I was stopped by my emotions... I was also born in Khao Dahng and to see where i was born and where my family lived for ten years just hit my soul... what you've done has had a great impact on alot of people."

Yale College Screening w/ Socheata Poeuv
Yale Old Campus
Sponsored by:
- Yale Film Studies Department
- Yale Asian Cultural Center
- Yale South East Asian Council
- Yale Genocide Studies Program
- Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at the Yale Law School

Primary Source Screening w/ Socheata Poeuv
    Embassy Cinema
    16 Pine Street
    Waltham, MA

October 2007 News

Socheata Poeuv appointed a Yale Fellow at the Yale Genocide Studies Program at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.
Khmer Legacies is incorporated. It will document Cambodian genocide survivor stories on camera. More information coming soon

National PBS Independent Lens date rescheduled for spring air date.
NEW YEAR BABY will screen at the California State University Long Beach confrence on genocide in 2008.
Voice of America gives praise for NEW YEAR BABY in an October 10th article:

"...Linda Chan, a Cambodian-American who came to see the film, said she was moved by the story. She herself never told her children about Cambodia. The film changed her mind, she said. "In the future I would tell them things about Cambodia," Chan said. "In the past I was afraid they wouldn't concentrate in school." Odom Mony Ngin was born in the United States to Cambodian parents. She came to watch the documentary with her mother and two sisters... "I think this film tells the truth," she said. "It tells a truth that all Cambodian-American families go through. We were born in the United States, but we live in Cambodian families and culture. Sometimes we face this barrier in communicating with our parents. Sometimes it's hard to talk to our parents. We can share this with the filmmaker..."