- Ieu Pannakar
Ieu Pannakar (born
February 21 ,1931 ) is aCambodia n film director and senator. Among the first Cambodians to study film making, he is one of Cambodia's pioneering film directors.cite web | title = Cambodian filmmaking up to the 1970s | publisher = Visiting Arts and the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia | url = http://www.culturalprofiles.net/Cambodia/Directories/Cambodia_Cultural_Profile/-1738.html
accessdate = 2007-07-18 ] He is a co-founder (with fellow Cambodian directorRithy Panh ) of Bophana: The Audio-Visual Resource Center - Cambodia. Pannaker serves as honorary president of Bophana's oversight organisation, the ARPAA, or Association pour la recherche, la production et l’archivage des documents audiovisuels.Pannaker serves in the
Senate of Cambodia , as a nominee of KingNorodom Sihamoni .cite web | title = Ieu Pannakar | publisher = www.senate.gov.kh | url = http://www.senate.gov.kh/senator/english/92ENG.htm
accessdate = 2007-07-18 ] He has also headed the cinematic division of the Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts. Pannaker's fatherIeu Koeus , who is deceased, was briefly Prime Minister of Cambodia. He held office for nine days in 1949.References
External links
* [http://www.bophana.org/ Bophana: Audio Visual Resource Center – Cambodia]
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