Grandma Nai

Directed by Chheangkea

Length: 20:00
Producers: Karen Madar, Daniel Mattes
Editor: Chheangkea
Cinematographer: Shyan Tan
Sound Designer: Vincent Villa

Long deceased and living at her tomb, Grandma Nai’s peaceful afterlife is disrupted by her oversized family’s obnoxious yearly visit. When she learns of her favorite grandson’s impending engagement to a woman, Grandma Nai follows her family out of the tomb to intervene in the meeting between the two families and help her grandson stand up for himself.

Graduate Film

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Chheangkea is a Cambodia-born filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in architecture from MIT and is currently in his thesis year as a Dean’s Fellow at the NYU Tisch Graduate Film Program. His latest short film, “Skin Can Breathe,” is a finalist for the HBO Max APA Visionaries competition and is distributed by Max.

Chheangkea is currently developing his feature film chronicling two decades of a Cambodian woman's life after the Khmer Rouge regime, while simultaneously in post-production for his upcoming short film, “Grandma Nai,” supported by the Fonds Image de l'Organisation de la Francophonie. In addition, he is a 2023-2024 fellow for the Marcie Bloom Fellowship in Film.