11 Facts About Davy Chou

Davy Chou founded the production company Vycky Films in 2009, with Jean-Jacky Goldberg and Sylvain Decouvelaere.

Davy Chou helped organize and curate a heritage film festival in Phnom Penh in 2013, the first in Asia.

In 2009, Davy Chou created film workshops in Cambodia with six universities and 60 students, and helped to found a youth-driven filmmaking collective known as Kon Khmer Koun Khmer.

Davy Chou was the producer of Twin Diamonds, a suspense film which was directed by the students.

Davy Chou learned during his studies and research in Cambodia that between the 1950s and 1960s, more than 400 films were made.

Between 2010 and 2011, Davy Chou moved to Cambodia in search of surviving witnesses of the golden age of Cambodian cinema between 1960 and 1975.

Davy Chou learned that nearly 400 films were destroyed or lost under the Khmer Rouge regime.

Davy Chou interviewed actress Dy Saveth and filmmakers Ly Bun Yim, Yvon Hem and Ly You Sreang.

Davy Chou explored Cambodia's cinematic heritage, and showed the struggle of the country's filmmakers as they weathered political turmoil, followed by critical-mass neglect of their work.

In 2013, Davy Chou returned to Phnom Penh to curate and coordinate Asia's first heritage film festival.

Davy Chou wrote and directed Return to Seoul, a drama about a young Korean-French woman, raised from infancy in France, who travels to Seoul and begins to explore what it might mean for her.