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]