Bun Sotinea

Sorry about the slowdown in postings, but we've been pretty busy during our final few days. Here's a photo of Bun Sotinea and her mother. They've emerged as the best "characters" in our video and as such, have followed them over a couple of days. Sotinea is an amazing girl--a few years ago her father died of AIDS and her mother is HIV positive, yet she is incredibly upbeat. She works with Monks from a local Wat and does peer education to her neighbors about the dangers of HIV-AIDS. We shot her doing the peer-ed last week and it was very moving to see a crowd of little kids hanging on her every word.

Sotinea also helps her mother make clothing for a local organization that sells Cambodian-made crafts to tourists. We shot a long sequence of the two working together on an ancient Singer sewing machine given to them by the organization.

More pics here