GAME PARK (in development)

by Vanessa Ly

Synopsis

Game Park is a story of betrayal that explores the challenge of transmission, the destructive power of suppressed memories and silence and the weight of guilt. Set in Grenoble, France – a sleepy provincial town at the foot of the Alps – in 2008-2009 during the international trials of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, the film unfolds the disintegration of a seemingly normal French Cambodian family.

Director’s Biography

French-born but living in the USA, director Vanessa Ly started making films when she moved back to New York in 1997 after studying Modern Literature at the Sorbonne University in Paris. Though she briefly visited the film department at NYU and Parsons New School in New York, she considers herself self-taught. With her first short film Mekong Interior – shot entirely in Cambodia she brought back home the Best Short Film Award from the Bangkok film festival. She followed with High Winds – shot entirely in California. Game Park will be her first feature film and marks a return to her roots by telling the tale of a French Cambodian family against the backdrop of Cambodian history.

Selected Filmography

2006 HIGH WINDS (short)

2004 MEKONG INTERIORS (short)

Cast & Crew

Director

Vanessa Ly

Writers

Vanessa Ly, Charlotte Gachon

Cast: TDB

Produced by

Vincent Wang, Fred Bellaïche

In coproduction with

Mathias Schwerbrock

Film Base Berlin GmbH