Khmer Rouge Survivor and Award-Winning Director on the Power of Film
When I sat down with Khmer Rouge survivor Rithy Panh, he told me a story of an Italian-Jew named Primo Levi, who only sold a few hundred copies of his first book Survival in Auschwitz, published in 1947. Levi would go on to be an accomplished author, but Panh said his road to success was rocky because it’s not a natural thing for us to tell stories of such tragedy.