New Year Baby Awarded the
Crystal Heart Award
by the Heartland Film Festival

Variety review:
"..This fine first feature is a disarming personal docu that turns into a very moving consideration of historical genocide and individual heroism. Winner of a well-deserved jury prize at the San Francisco Asian-American Film Festival, it merits further exposure..."  - Dennis Harvey

IDA Documentary Magazine:
"...New Year Baby is a moving personal journey ...deservedly earned the $25,000 Target Filmmaker Award for Best Documentary."

Festivals:

Seattle Human Rights Film Festival (SHRFF) - OPENING FILM 
Presented by Amnesty International          
Feb. 13th - 17th / Seattle, WA - USA

Durango Independent Film Festival
Feb. 27th - March 2nd / Durango, CO - USA

Common Ground Film
With the World Bank & The International Finance
Washington, DC - USA

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam  (World Premiere &  WINNER: Movies That Matter Award)
Nov. 22nd to Dec. 2nd / Amsterdam - Holland

Goteborg Film Festival  (New Year Baby is a Hot Film)
Jan. 26th to Feb. 5th  /  Goteborg - Sweden  

Sedona Film Festival 
Feb. 28th - March 4th  /  Sedona, AZ - USA

One World International Human Rights Film Festival
Feb. 28th - March 8th / Prague - Czech Republic

Amnesty International Film Festival
March 14th to 18th / Amsterdam - Netherlands

San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival  (WINNER: Best Documentary)
March. 15th to Feb. 25th  /  San Francisco, CA - USA 

Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
March 16th to 25th / Thessaloniki - Greece

Docaviv Film Festival
March 15th to 24th / Tel Aviv - Israel

OxDox Film Festival 
March 10th to 25th / Oxford & London - England

AFI Dallas International Film Festival  (WINNER: Best Documentary)
March 22nd to April 1st / Dallas, TX - USA

Chicago Asian American Showcase
March 31st to April 12th / Chicago, IL - USA
VC Film Festival  (WINNER: Audience Award)
May 3rd to May 10th / Los Angeles, CA - USA

Barcelona Asian Film Festival
April 27th to May 6th / Barcelona - Spain

Guth Gafa Documentary Film Festival  (OPENING FILM)
May 10th to 13th - Ireland

UNHCR Refugee Film Festival  (OPENING FILM)
June 14th to 19th / Phnom Penh - Cambodia

Asian American International Film Festival   (WINNER: Audience Award & Special Jury Award)
July 22nd to 25th / New York, NY - USA

Martha's Vineyard Film Festival
August 15th  / Martha's Vinyard, MA - USA

DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival    (CLOSING FILM)   
October 6th  / The Smithsonian Institution Freer - Washington, DC - USA

San Diego Asian Film Festival
October 11th - 18th  /  San Diego, CA - USA

Warsaw International Film Festival  
October 12th to 21st  / Warsaw - Poland

Middle East International Film Festival
October 14th to 19th  /  Abu Dahbi - United Arab Emerates

The Heartland Film Festival   (WINNER Crystal Heart Award)
October 18th to 26th  /  Indianapolis, IN - USA

Village Cinema Documentary Series
October 29th - 7pm @ Charles B. Wang Center / Port Jefferson, NY - USA

Amnesty International Film Festival  (Spotlight Film)
November  8th -11th /  Vancouver - Canada

'Movies That Matter' Human Rights Award / an Amnesty International innitiative
Jury Report-
"New Year Baby (is) a deeply tender and poignant film about a Cambodian-American's journey with her family to uncover the secrets of a tragic past at the hands of the Khmer Rouge... It was a tour de force for anyone, and particularly for a young, first-time filmmaker...

We also agreed unanimously to award New Year Baby with the Movies that Matter prize. We are confident that the universal appeal of the film will give an international audience emotional access into the impact of the genocide, and may help pave the way for the potentially forthcoming tribunal in Cambodia..."

-IDFA Movies That Matter Jury

 

San Francisco Best Documentary Jury Report-
"New Year Baby by Socheata Poeuv has been awarded Best Documentary for its gripping portrayal of a family's struggle to overcome the traumatic legacies of the Khmer Rouge. The film unfolds with remarkable candor, humor, and a heartbreaking intensity that captures a daughter's quest to understand her family's history and a father's willingness to lay open his vulnerabilities by confronting his past. We congratulate Socheata for a courageous debut feature."

-San Francisco Int. Asian American Film Festival Documentary Jury

 

AFI Dallas Documentary Jury:
"Unblinking in its pursuit of the truth…personal documentaries (are) a search for your heart  and your soul and that is what they did."

"It was fu***** great." -Anonymous Dallas Juror

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