Proleung Khmer

05/20/2026

Greetings! The organizer asked us to share with our friends and family about a Khmer casting call, the deadline to apply has been extended to June 1st!

Hi Proleung Khmer,

Pleasure to be in touch and hope you are well! My name is Cameron and I work with In Search Of casting agency. We are currently casting Little Phnom Penh, a feature film written and directed by Chheangkea, set to shoot at the end of the year in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Long Beach, California. I'm reaching out because we'd love to share this casting opportunity with your community and network. Please see below for details and character breakdown.

Logline: Spanning two sweeping decades and two continents, from post-Khmer Rouge Phnom Penh to early 2000s California, a Cambodian woman searches for family, home, and belonging, as her first love continues to resurface over time.

No acting experience necessary

Open to Cambodians + diaspora worldwide

Most roles require talent to have native fluency in Khmer

LITTLE PHNOM PENH | FEATURE FILM

NON UNION

Director: Chheangkea (Sundance Award winner, GRANDMA NAI WHO PLAYED FAVORITES and SKIN CAN BREATHE streaming on HBO Max)

Executive Producer: Ian Bricke, Putnam Pictures

Production: Karen Madar of Nomad Productions

Local Production: Anti Archive

Casting Direction: Natalie Lin & Nafisa Kaptownwala of In Search Of

Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia and California, USA (most roles will not require travel)

Shooting Period: Winter 2026-2027 (exact timing TBD)

We've extended the deadline to JUNE 1ST

Attached is a shareable image in English and Khmer. And here is the link to the instagram post. Would love for you to share this among your network! Please let us know if you have any leads for organizations / individuals we could reach out to.

Thank you so much and be in touch if you have any questions.

Best,

Cameron Carter
she/her
Casting Assistant

+1 925-289-6826

IN SEARCH OF AGENCY

IN SEARCH OF IS CURRENTLY CASTING CAMBODIAN TALENT FOR SEVERAL ROLES IN AN INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM. NO ACTING EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. APPLY HERE: https://tinyurl.com/LPPcastingcall

04/29/2026

Sharing this post, a review of our 2025 Vigil, done by Pou Kowith Kret, who is one of our biggest supporters (and great Khmer emcee)!!! Thank you, Pou! https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02FjEatfCmuRsGUKGbpRSDSS8GrwsRnxRa8J4LMepXmepf8r28hQXmdPgzewtHv3tXl&id=100014417254912

The 2026 visual review will be coming soon!

04/22/2026

Thank you for your support City of Lowell!!

04/13/2026

សួស្តីឆ្នាំថ្មី!!​​ Happy New Year to all our Khmer kinsmen and kinswomen! We'd like to share an updated flyer for this Friday's vigil. This year, master musicians from Tepniyum Band will join forces with UMass Lowell's Wong Pleng Khmer to perform Mohory and a special song dedicated to world peace. Also students from the Collegiate Charter School of Lowell have volunteered to share their presentations on the Khmer Rouge, family stories, and pass out handmade Romduol flowers (Cambodian national flower) to our guests. Thank you for your support and we hope to see you this Friday at 5pm in front of Lowell City Hall.

04/06/2026

The opening of A Khmer Swan Lake by Angkor Dance Troupe is starting this week on April 8th! Please visit their website for more information and for tickets. As a partner, MRT is offering a buy one get one free ticket offer. Enter BOGOPK at checkout! (We're told the last day to use this code is this Wednesday)...Don't delay in getting your tickets, we've heard the tickets are almost sold out!
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Merrimack Repertory Theatre is excited to announce our final production of the season A Khmer Swan Lake. The performance run dates are April 8-26. This beautiful new dance theatre adaptation is brought to life by Angkor Dance Troupe. The performance blends Western ballet with Cambodia's Robam Kenore traditional dance style, bringing the themes of love, betrayal, and sacrifice to life through Cambodian dancers and musicians, creating a spectacle that is at once familiar, and yet also entirely original. A Khmer Swan Lake is not just a performance, it is a cultural bridge, a celebration of Cambodian heritage, and a daring reimagining of a story loved around the world. For Tickets, please visit www.mrt.org or call the Box Office at 978-654-4678.

Are you interested in seeing shows at a professional theatre? Visit the Merrimack Repertory Theatre website to explore our shows in Lowell, Massachusetts.

04/03/2026

Hello everyone, on behalf of our Vigil planning committee (Sara
Khun-Leng, Vannak Theng, Sopheap Theam, Barbara Dunsford, Leakhena Sreng, Sothea Chiemruom, Thysan Sam, Mana Kheang, and Sophy Theam), we'd like to invite all of you to join us at our interfaith vigil scheduled for 4/17 from 5 - 6:30 pm.

Many thanks to our emcees, poets/speakers, and the UML Wong Pleng Khmer for committing their time for our program.

Feel free to share with your networks!

We hope to see you there!

03/30/2026

03/21/2026

Sharing an updated flyer for our free event. The Umass Lowell World Music Class will be performing Khmer traditional music from approximately 4:30 - 5:15 pm before the program begins.

We're looking for stories and poems to share. Please submit your entries on our event page on our website.

Special shout out to our sponsors: Rockland Trust Foundation, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Greater Lowell Community Foundation, John A. Hunnewell Trust, and Carrie & Eric Meikle!!!

01/09/2026

If you are in the area, go support Vichet Chum (writer) and a few Khmer actors in the world premiere of the theatrical production of Kween at Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell, MA running from 2/25-3/15.

For more info and tickets: https://mrt.org/show/kween/
About the book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75668271-kween
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1C4mhFJABE/

01/09/2026

Hello friends and family, because of the 50th anniversary of the genocide, the interest in sharing history about Cambodia and its people, and due to the current border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia, Yale University's Council for Southeast Asian Studies is putting together a year-long learning opportunity in 2026 on the history of Cambodia all the way up to the diasporas. The first session is going to held this Wednesday, January 14th from 12 - 1 pm and they will offer virtual attendance as well as in person. The second session is slated for January 28th with more info to come!

The first session is entitled
"In the Beginning Was Angkor: Heritage and Identity (Part I)" to be presented by Dr. Piphal Heng.

Below is Dr. Heng's bio and you can read more and register here to attend via Zoom:
https://macmillan.yale.edu/southeast-asia/events/2026-01-07/piphal-hengin-beginning-was-angkor-heritage-and-identity-part-i

Dr. Piphal Heng is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, specializing in Southeast Asian archaeology. His research focuses on urbanism, political economy, and religious transformation in Cambodia, with particular attention to the Angkorian and post-Angkorian periods (9th-18th century CE). Dr. Heng integrates geospatial technologies—including LiDAR, remote sensing, and spatial analysis—with archaeological fieldwork to examine long-term landscape use, settlement patterns, and urban infrastructure. He currently directs the Phum Archaeology project, which explores the social and spatial dynamics of low-density urbanism in the Lower Mekong basin.

We're really looking forward to attending this first session and hope some of you can join too!

- Sophy Theam (Proleung Khmer Co-Chair with Sothea Chiemruom)

Wed, Jan 14 2026, 12 - 1pm |