Venice Hidden Gem: Buddhism and Sci-Fi Converge in Cambodian Mystery ‘Karmalink’

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Venice Hidden Gem: Buddhism and Sci-Fi Converge in Cambodian Mystery ‘Karmalink’
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American expat director Jake Wachtel was teaching a film course in Cambodia when inspiration struck for his futuristic reincarnation mystery 'Karmalink.' He then enlisted his two favorite students to star in the film and even help write the script.

A Palo Alto-raised Californian, Wachtel had moved to Phnom Penh in 2014 to teach a year-long course in filmmaking to children living in disadvantaged areas of the city, part of the Filmmakers Without Borders initiative. Inspired by the community he was living among and growing to love, the rapid pace of change in the country , plus Kazuo Ishiguro’s dystopian sci-fi novel, he began dreaming up his own “Buddhist Cambodian” version.

“Lang Heng is the consummate dreamer with his head in the clouds who wants to help people, while Srey Leak is a head shorter than everyone else but tough as nails and kind of has this really serious attitude,” he says. “I think the light bulb moment was realising that that she would play the detective, that she was the Cambodian version of Sherlock.”

“But he couldn’t write in the same vernacular that the kids were using socially, so they rewrote a lot of the dialog with me,” he says.

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