Ieu Pannakar Explained

Ieu Pannakar
Native Name:អៀវ បណ្ណាការ
Term Start:25 March 1999
Term End:23 April 2018
Birth Date:1931 2, df=y
Death Place:Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Spouse:Oum Sophanith
Relations:Ieu Koeus (father)
Nationality:Cambodian

Ieu Pannakar (Central Khmer: អៀវ បណ្ណាការ; 21 February 1931 – 10 May 2018) was a Cambodian film director and statesman. Among the first Cambodians to study film making, he was one of Cambodia's pioneering film directors.[1] He was a co-founder (with fellow Cambodian director Rithy Panh) of Bophana: The Audio-Visual Resource Center - Cambodia. Pannakar served as honorary president of Bophana's oversight organisation, the, or .

Pannaker served in the Senate of Cambodia, as a nominee of King Norodom Sihamoni.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cambodian filmmaking up to the 1970s . Visiting Arts and the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia . 2007-07-18 .
  2. Web site: Ieu Pannakar . www.senate.gov.kh . 2007-07-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070927141233/http://www.senate.gov.kh/senator/english/92ENG.htm . 2007-09-27 . dead .