Davy Chou is a young French filmmaker and producer, whose parents were born in Cambodia. Between 2001 and 2004 he managed a film and video workshop for high school students. In 2005 he founded CQN Productions, which produced 9 short films. Davy Chou produced three of them himself. He also launched an international digital film festival the same year, Festival des Nouveaux Cinémas (www.nouveaucine.com), the fifth anniversary of which was just recently celebrated. He has worked from January 2007 to December 2008 at Studio 37, Orange France Telecom’s branch for movie production.
In 2007 he directed his first professional short film, Davy Chou’s first film, and his second short film Expired, shot during his first trip in Cambodia, was selected at International Film Festival Entrevues de Belfort 2008.
In 2008, the short film Girls of fire, on which he was production manager, was selected at the International Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival.
He has developed in Phnom Penh a filmmaking workshop and he is preparing an exhibition and a documentary film about the golden era of Cambodian films in the 60s and the 70s, as his grandfather, Van Chann, was one of the greatest producers in that time in Cambodia.
