Hollywood Artist Nurturing Creativity in Cambodia, Her Family Home
16 May 2021
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Sina San is the first Cambodian American to win an EMMY award for outstanding visual effects. From a child of immigrants drawing on the walls of the family’s house to a successful visual effects artist drawing for Hollywood, the 39-year-old Los Angeles talent represents a classic success story of the American dream. Now, she hopes to bring the dream to her motherland. VOA Khmer’s Chetra Chap talked with Sina San right before the Covid-19 pandemic about her journey in the creative industry, and her plan to help nurture the creative arts in Cambodia.
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“If I end up getting pregnant, you’re going to be my midwife,” she told Grayson. The two joked about the possibility but a couple of months later, Okoth found out she was expecting.
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Soma rushes from class to class at Lowell High School while balancing homework and friends, just like any other 16-year-old girl.
One day, in the middle of her sisterâs wedding planning, her mother must head back to Cambodia to help fight her fatherâs wrongful deportation from the US.
Meanwhile, Soma posts a video that shows her performing slam poetry under the name âKhmer Kerouac,â and it blows up online. Soon her friends and future brother-in-law convince her to enter a poetry competition honoring the Beat Generation novelist and poet Jack Kerouac, who was born in Lowell a century ago.