Cambodia

The story of the little garbage girl in which Buck artistically fell in love and because of whom I spent my weekends on the Phnom Penh garbage dump

Hi guys!
We already told you a lot about Detlev Buck's journeys in our clips and reports.
During one trip to Cambodia he went to a garbage dump, where he met a little girl he wanted to have badly in his film. How he managed that and what Jan Müller had to go through to make it happen, is written down in the following text:

It was going at the moment in June 2008. I'd been in Cambodia for four years already and so I was of course very predestinated to guide my new friends from Boje Buck, producer Jan, development chief Wenka and the boss Bucki, through some well selected areas of the country, which could have become possible film locations for the shooting, well, location scouting. After struggling with our motorbikes through small, idyllic Cambodian villages for a couple of days, a particularly romantic location had to be investigated on this day: Phnom Penhs garbage dump. Thanks to “durchzechter” night, of course it was our turn a little later than wanted, the sun was almost already in the plumb line in the sky and this means in Cambodia that this becomes very hot here. Everyone was on the Phnom Penh garbage dump for the first time and Buck came to indulge himself immediately in this and remembered his unique childhood in the German countryside when he used to dig in the waste on a nearby garbage dump at that time, wasn't that glorious!!

One must imagine this extraordinary location like this:
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"Shooting in Cambodia= riding rollercoaster without a seatbelt"

This week, Ryan Plummer our still photographer gives you an insight about live in Cambodia. Born in Canada but living for a long time in Cambodia already, he gives you some westernkhmer impressions about the country.

Tells us about your experiences shooting in Cambodia! It was the first time working on Film Set/Production. Great experience. A new appreciation for the cast, crews and industry as a whole

Cambodia and Germany
What is SAME SAME? Outdoor/Sidewalk eating culture
What is DIFFERENT? Other than the weather? Absolutely everything. More SUVs in Cambodia than in all of Europe

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Tourists or filmmakers? Impressions of the 1st locationtour in Cambodia

They look like funny tourists, but they’re bad-ass filmmakers on the quest for locations.

I was lucky. Because of a long term knee injury of screenwriter Ruth Thoma I was allowed to participate on Bucks second journey. Actually this would have been the trip of Jan Brandt, the production manager, since it should be already about concrete preparations for the production and location scouting. He arranged various appointments with filmmakers. The first meeting was with Sovichea from the Bophana Center, he was going to be our line producer.

For our first location tour we headed to country. We agreed on motobikes. Jan Müller our man for everything brought his own – including his girlfriend Siyan. At the evening before we rented two more bikes, which took us several hours and drinks, among others because Jan Brandt, as production manager committed to money, wanted to negotiate a good price and didn’t want to be confused by touristic generosity. A strength he could maintain until the end of the shooting. Sithon, the Cambodian location manager picked us up the next morning, jumped on the bike behind Jan and off we went.

The highlight for me was the village on the mountain. As I sat on the bench and was looking over the country I could feel for a moment why some want to stay.

Wenka

Following also some impressions for you:

Rice crop with Apinya Sakuljaroensuk & David Kross

This week eMEe shows exclusive material from our shooting in Cambodia. Watch out and see how the two leading actors of Same Same but Different, David Kross and Apinya Sakuljaroensuk try to learn how to harvest the rice.
Enjoy and stay tuned!

Harvest Romance from SAME SAME on Vimeo.