Cambodia’s audiovisual recordings were nearly destroyed after almost three decades of war and genocide perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge from 1970 to 1998. L’Associationpour la Recherche, la Production et l’Archivage de Documents Audiovisuels (ARPAA), and d/b/a Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center were co-founded in 2006 by the award-winning filmmaker Rithy Panh, and the filmmaker Ieu Pannakar, (who was the head of the Film Department at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia), to collect, preserve, safeguard, and promote the audiovisual memory of Cambodia. 

Bophana is the name of a young Khmer woman who was a prisoner at S21, a former high school in Phnom Penh turned into a prison by the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 until its fall in 1979. Bophana continued to write letters to her fiancé, breaking the Khmer Rouge’s interdiction of love and private life. She was executed in prison on 1977 25 after being tortured for more than five months. By adopting the name of Bophana, the Center is passing on the message of resistance, courage, and dignity left for future generations by this woman through her letters and her heroic story. 

La CHHOUK Recycled and Creative Fashion is a social entrepreneurship created by Royal University of Fine Arts graduates in 2014. La CHHOUK Recycled and Creative Fashion aims to educate people about the value of recycled materials such as bottles, cans, newspapers, plastics, straws, and so on while incorporating fashion by producing remarkable dress pieces. On the other hand, they aim to promote gender equality and discriminate or end any previous issues regarding the presence of LGBTIQ people. The LGBT community is being mistreated and accused of sabotaging the culture of Cambodia. In contrast, we believe they deserve the right to live and perform any action just like the rest of us. 

Most importantly, we want to provide an open door for their future careers in the fashion industry by offering volunteer roles among the team. Additionally, La CHHOUK Recycled and Creative Fashion attempts to preserve Cambodian arts as we see potential loss if the case is not adequately taken into action. As stated, we want to be a part of the cultural preservation movement by featuring the unique aesthetic of ancient art in fashion pieces. 

Based on the provided information, La CHHOUK Recycled and Creative Fashion was created with three main purposes, which are showcasing stunning wardrobes with the use of recycled materials produced by an LGBT group of designers’ incorporation with related-background models, makeup artists, and other essential roles. 

Srolanh Kon Chea Kon (Love your children as who they are!) project aims to raise awareness, promote family acceptance, and encourage changing behavior and perspective toward LGBT issues among the parents and community. This project intends to address the issues of rejection and negative perception of families, especially parents that have children who are LGBT. This project will raise more public understanding of LGBT’s untold issues in their household, especially between the parents and their own LGBTQ+ children, through digital campaigns including content, videos, and other physical events. This project is expected to reach at least 5000 total engagements using a digital campaign. They are outreaching the public for better discussion on solutions and issues through fostering changing behavior in a more accepting, respectful, and understanding manner between parents and children and the external environment with physical gatherings to at least 10 LGBTQ+ youths and ten parents. Weekly digital content will be produced to raise unsaid issues inside the LGBT household and the problems both parties are facing. Also, it is to advocate for their issues and engage in open discussion and public understanding, which is the first step toward acceptance. Another essential activity is breaking stigma focused on inspiring or broadening the public, parents & LGBTQ+ youths’ perspectives through 5 LGBTQ+ youths & 5 accepting parents’ stories through 5 sessions online. Community support for acceptance is another key activity that empowers community support for parents of LGBTQ+ youths via the online platform where there is an open space “You Ask, We Answer” for the public to share their perspective to build a stronger sense of community. A physical workshop/gathering to be organized to directly engage with at least 20 parents and LGBTQ’s youth to promote a sense of community and provide a platform for parents and LGBTQ+ youths to engage and louden the voices for “parents and community acceptance”. The wrapping up of the project outcomes and reflection, as well as key lessons learned, will be developed by the end of the project. Three campaign videos are planned to be produced for this project. This 12-month project will be implemented in Phnom Penh and is expected to reach out to more people through a social media campaign.