US filmmaker Steven Okazaki has been nominated for four Academy Awards, winning an Oscar for “Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo (1990).

Tonight his production company Farallon Films presents the Cambodian premiere of “The Conscience of Nhem En” (2008, 26mins), which was nominated for an Oscar in 2009. Okazaki focuses on Toul Sleng prison photographer Nhem En and the few survivors. He also tells the story of the havoc, that Pol Pot’s reign wrecked on Cambodian people. This presentation is followed by Okazaki’s stunning documentary “TROUBLED PARADISE” (1992, 56 mins) on indigenous cultures and politics on the Big Island of Hawai.