Guillaume Suon

Guillaume Suon (born 26 November 1982) is a French-Cambodian filmmaker.

Career

Guillaume Suon has focused his first documentary films on Cambodia’s history and contemporary society.

Trained by the Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rithy Panh, Guillaume Suon is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus and a fellow of the Sundance Institute and the IDFAcademy.

Filmography

Year Film Genre Awards 2010 About My Father Documentary Runner Up at the AIBD World TV Awards 2011

Jury Award at the FEMI 2012

Special Jury Award at the Festival Internacional de Cine Político (FICIP) 2013 2012 Red Wedding Documentary Award for Best Mid-Length Documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2012

Aljazeera Golden Award at the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival 2013 (Qatar)

Jury Prize at the Gdansk DocFilm Festival 2013 (Poland)

Special Jury Prize at the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival 2013

Best South East Asian Human Rights Film at the FreedomFilmFest 2013 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Special Mention Award at the Salaya International Documentary Film Festival 2014 (Thailand) 2013 The Last Refuge Documentary Aung San Suu Kyi Award for ASEAN Films at the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival (HRHDIFF) 2014 (Yangon, Myanmar)

Best SEA Documentary Award at the Freedom Film Fest 2014 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) 2014 The Storm Makers Documentary Mecenat Award for Best Asian Documentary Film at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) 2014 (South Korea)

Inspiration Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2015 (Durham, U.S.A.)

“Windows on the World” Prize for the Best Feature Film at Milan's Festival of African, Asian and Latin American Cinema 2015

Special Mention Award at the Salaya International Documentary Film Festival 2015 (Thailand) 2019 The Taste of Secrets Documentary Allocine