The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Cambodia
This page contains a list of the greatest Cambodian Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 2,041 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in Cambodia. This makes Cambodia the birth place of the 88th most number of Film Directors behind Saudi Arabia, and Guinea-Bissau.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Cambodian Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Cambodian Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Rithy Panh (b. 1964)
With an HPI of 41.80, Rithy Panh is the most famous Cambodian Film Director. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Rithy Panh (Khmer: ប៉ាន់ រិទ្ធី; born April 18, 1964) is a Cambodian documentary film director, author and screenwriter. The French-schooled director's films focus on the aftermath of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. His works are from an authoritative viewpoint, because his family were expelled from Phnom Penh in 1975 by the Khmer Rouge. One after another, his father, mother, sisters and nephews died of starvation or exhaustion, as they were held in a remote labor camp in rural Cambodia.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Cambodian film directors born between 1964 and 1964. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Cambodian film directors include Rithy Panh.
