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[justinm at ucr.edu]

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justin

THE BETRAYAL (NERAKHOON) is the directorial debut of award winning cinematographer Ellen Kuras (Julian Schnabel’s Lou Reed’s Berlin, Spike Lee’s Summer of Sam and Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Be Kind Rewind) and Co-Directed by Thavisouk Phrasavath.

The Betrayal

Filmed over the course of 23 years, THE BETRAYAL (NERAKHOON) documents the epic journey of a family torn apart by the CIA-financed secret war in Laos to the mean streets of New York. Thavisouk Phrasavath narrates his own story as a child surviving the Vietnam war and the hardships of immigrant life, while his mother relates her own astonishing tale of perseverance as a wife and a mother in war. Accompanied by a haunting score by Academy Award winning composer Howard Shore, renowned cinematographer Ellen Kuras's directorial debut is a remarkable collaboration with co-director Phrasavath, a powerfully eloquent tribute to what it means to be in exile, and a testament to the resilient bonds of family.

View the trailer at: www.cinemaguild.com/cinematheque_betrayal.html

THE BETRAYAL will premiere at the IFC Theater of New York on November 21st, and will be shown on PBS Spring 2009.

 

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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
3046 INTN
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951-827-4530
justinm at ucr.edu