Grad Film Alum Chheangkea receives 2025 Black Family Feature Film Prize

Wednesday, Apr 15, 2026

Chheangkea is the 25’ recipient of the Black Family Feature Film Prize for his film “Little Phnom Penh”.

Logline: A Cambodian woman searches for connection and belonging as a daughter, wife, and mother — while a lost first love continues to find her across time and continents, from post-Khmer Rouge Phnom Penh to early 2000s California.

The film is being produced by MBA/MFA alum Karen Madar.

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Martin Scorsese Institute of Global Cinematic Arts

Grad Film Alum Chheangkea receives 2025 Black Family Feature Film Prize

Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television

Institute of Performing Arts

Institute of Emerging Media

Martin Scorsese Institute of Global Cinematic Arts

Grad Film Alum Chheangkea receives 2025 Black Family Feature Film Prize

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