The Long Walk (Bor Mi Vanh Chark) opens with the sound of the past being disinterred. An Old Man (Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy) is in the jungle digging up a moped which, covered in rust, dirt and leafy undergrowth, has clearly been there for decades – as has the human skeleton, overlooked or at least ignored by…
First published by VODzilla.co Born in Los Angeles to Lao immigrant parents, Mattie Do moved to Vientiane in 2010, and has since become a key player in the country’s emerging film industry. Her feature debut, the low-budget Chanthaly (2013), was the first horror film to be written and directed entirely in Laos, and the first…
First published by VODzilla.co Always a cottage industry, Lao film production is, like the nation itself, currently undergoing a rapid transformation. In the past, it produced only state propaganda – but in 2008, Thai director Sakchai Deenan made the country’s first independent film Good Morning Luang Prabang, and 2009 saw the launch of the Luang…