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Documentary Outreach Cambodia.
Four weeks on location in Phnom Penh. You research, film, and edit a short documentary in direct collaboration with a locally-led changemaker organisation.
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Four weeks on location in Phnom Penh. You research, film, and edit a short documentary in direct collaboration with a locally-led changemaker organisation.
The Destination
Phnom Penh is Cambodia's capital and its most complex city. Built at the confluence of the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers, it carries the weight of recent history while moving fast toward a different future. The city is dense, ambitious, and full of contradiction.
Beneath the surface of rapid development, a network of locally-led organisations is working on the issues that matter most: access to education, economic opportunity for women, disability rights, youth empowerment, and environmental resilience. These are the organisations your crew will work alongside.
Four weeks on location, embedded in a city that rewards curiosity and patience. You will leave knowing it in a way that most visitors never do.
What's Included
$5,000
USD per person · accommodation included
Cost does not include round-trip airfare, visa, personal meals, or travel insurance. Travel insurance is required.
Week By Week
Over four weeks in Phnom Penh, you move through every stage of documentary production. Each week builds on the last.
Week One
You arrive and get straight to work. From the first day, the crew is in the field: briefings, screenings, hands-on exercises, and time spent with the people and places you will eventually film. You are not assigned a story. You go looking for one. By the end of the week you have a protagonist and a story you want to spend the next three weeks telling.
Week Two
Turn what you have learned into a working plan. With your crew you shape the story, build an outline, and map out how it will be told. Before moving into the main film, you produce a short micro-documentary together. You learn how your crew communicates, makes decisions, and works under pressure before the stakes get higher.
Week Three
You are in it. Filming real life as it unfolds, working with your storyholder and collaborators, making creative decisions in the field as things shift around you. Each evening, the crew reviews the day's work, gets feedback, and adjusts. The story begins to take shape.
Week Four
You bring it together. From rough cut to picture lock, with the Production Manager alongside you the whole way. The film screens publicly at the end of the trip, for the community and for the people who trusted you with their story. You leave with a finished documentary and a production process you can lead on your next project.
From Past Crew
This was one of the best experiences of my life so far and I wouldn't trade my time in Cambodia for anything. I learned so much and I made some great friends.
B. Janusik
Documentary Outreach · Cambodia
I'm not the same person going out of it as I was going in. The work is hard. The relationships you build — with your crew and with your storyholders — are real. I didn't expect that.
Rosie Robinson
Documentary Outreach · Vietnam
I started with little experience in film production and came away feeling confident to pursue this as a career, thanks to a comprehensive and rigorous training process.
Samuel Mitchell
Documentary Outreach
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