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by Samantha Husik | Published November 8, 2011 Our past informs our present and our future. For moviemaker Daron Ker, his past as a Cambodian refugee has informed his career as a director of documentaries. In Rice Field of Dreams, Ker follows a refugee’s return to Cambodia to start the nation’s first baseball [...] 
By Peter Olszewski Daron Ker is returning to the kingdom next month to start pre-production. “The next generation of filmmakers is coming, not just from Hollywood and New York, but from around the world.” HE’S one of San Francisco’s hot young film makers, 38 years of age. He’s Cambodian-born, which is kind of cool [...] 
By Zachary Pincus-Roth I was driving home last night in West Los Angeles and saw what appeared to be fifty members of the Hessians Motorcycle Club attending Lee Chang-dong’s perfectly-paced character study of a 66-year-old maid raising her only grandchild in Korea. Had the Hessians been eagerly anticipating the film’s arrival after it [...] 
By David Thompson The map says it is over 8200 miles from Cambodia to the United States. But for filmmaker Daron Ker, bridging the gap between the two cultures is at the root of his passion for storytelling and the driving force behind his burgeoning career. Born in the “Killing Fields” era of [...] 
By Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times “Filmmaker Daron Ker’s earliest childhood remembrances come from the three torturous years he spent in a malaria-ridden concentration camp in the center of Cambodia’s killing fields. His next, more pleasant memories are of watching movies projected on a tattered bedsheet in a refugee camp just across the [...] 
By Greg Mellen, Staff Writer LONG BEACH – Although filmmaker Daron Ker had only flickering memories of his homeland, he still felt a special kinship to Cambodia. The flickering Ker best remembered were of films being shown on white bed sheets at the Thai refugee camp where he and his family lived before [...] |
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