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We are now two-thirds of the way through filming and hope to start editing the in April. We last travelled to Cambodia in August when Rob went to Cambodia to testify at the trial of Comrade Duch in the ECCC war crimes tribunal. We are now awaiting the outcome of the trial and plan to return to Cambodia again in February or early March when the verdict is delivered.

In the meantime, we have continued with fundraising efforts, finding archive material, transcribing and logging hours of footage and developing our website and outreach, and we’ve been fortunate to have the assistance of three Summer Scholars from the University of Auckland to assist us with this work over the summer.

Annie is currently in the States where she has screened her documentary An Island Calling at the American Historical Association (AHA) Film Festival in San Diego and participated as a panelist at the festival. She will also meet up with Brother Number One Producer/DOP Peter Gilbert and together they will visit the Shoah Foundation, an organisation established by Steven Spielberg, which has a mission "to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry - and the suffering they cause - through the educational use of the Institute's visual history testimonies." We are also interested in developing a testimony project with the Cambodian community here in New Zealand, as a companion project to the film itself.

There will be a lot happening with the film over the next few months, especially as we await news of the outcome of the ECCC trial of Comrade Duch so watch this space and keep in touch.