Who Puts Up The Money For Movies Producers Or Executive Producers

Sitting nether a soft lite, a woman on a mobile phone screen holds a bunch of phony dollar bills as she confidently shout at both nobody and everybody at once about a skin-whitening balm she's trying to sell to her livestream viewers.

"My dears, if this balm doesn't lighten and brighten your pare y'all can throw it back in my face up," she says with an enthusiasm bordering on agony as she tries to convince potential buyers.

These sorts of sales pitches are ordinarily heard on social media these days from the hordes of scheming online salespeople hawking beauty products to anyone who will watch and heed.

"Hurry upwards and get some! If this lotion wasn't constructive, then how would I have made all of this money?" the woman asks, though her dreams of being a millionaire are likely withal far off – unless there are actually millionaires who shout about peel scream on Facebook all mean solar day instead of just hiring somebody else to do information technology for them.

In a dissever livestream session, her husband – who has his hair slicked dorsum and wears business suits – is preaching to his followers about how to go rich.

"Jack Ma is a Chinese millionaire. He once said that if you always stay on land, you'll never learn to swim. The same applies here. If you don't make investments like ownership land, then how tin can you learn how to earn money? You've got to become your anxiety wet," he says.

A crowd of young wannabe real estate tycoons dirge "I can do information technology! I'll become a millionaire!"

There's nothing wrong with dreaming big, only the fraudulent business organisation practices and obvious hucksterism employed by these online beauty product sellers and real manor promoters are more than likely to give nightmares to anyone who follows their communication.

Actors Yem Sreypich (left) and Huy Yaleng at the premiere of Covid-xix Life Crisis on May 19. SUPPLIED

Covid-19 Life Crisis is a fictionalised story that touches on this real world dilemma. In the film – which is virtually a couple pursuing their dreams to go millionaires – the family briefly gets rich but messes up their fortunes with greed, lies and false promises. Their lives have further unexpected twists and turns exacerbated by the global pandemic situation also.

The picture show stars Yem Srey Pich as the female pb and executive producer Huy Yaleng has bandage himself in the lead male office.

"The reason I produced this picture show was partly equally a response to the unprecedented global crisis of Covid-19 that everyone has been dealing with since 2019 and though information technology seems to be coming to an end, I don't think we should forget it," the 43-year-old actor, director and producer tells The Post. "I really wanted to make this film almost equally a historical note so the next generation will remember how Cambodia battled and overcame the Covid crisis."

Rather than covering the numerous and broad range of issues that were happening during the pandemic, Yaleng chose to focus on two recent booming trends in the Kingdom – online sales and property investments because much of the activity involved with both is deceitful, fraudulent and difficult to regulate.

"With support from the public for my previous dramatic motion-picture show Fathers, which was based on a truthful story about a desperate Cyclo driver who struggles with fatherhood and life within the bustling city of Phnom Penh, I wanted to make another film based on real life stories.

"The story is drawn from true life stories of different people, including friends and acquaintances in the online selling and real estate sectors. And these are problems that many people are aware of and are talking about or have encountered straight or indirectly during the pandemic," he says.

The 130-infinitesimal feature is acted in the Khmer-language and volition run with dual-subtitles in both Chinese and English. It was produced by Yaleng'south own Kakthachey Films.

Sreypich and Yaleng on-ready between takes while filming Covid-nineteen Life Crunch. SUPPLIED

"Recently the big trend in Khmer cinema was ghost or horror films aimed at a youth audience, which are entertaining but they don't actually get out much lasting impact with audiences or teach them anything about life, but I want immature people to proceeds something by watching my movies and to reflect personally on what they've just seen," he says.

Yaleng says they decided to add together Chinese subtitles partly considering of the growing Chinese audition for movies in Cambodia but also every bit a gesture of appreciation for i of the stars and producers of the film, who is Chinese.

"I would like to express my heartfelt thank to the Royal Government of Cambodia that allowed the opening of the cinemas and picture show production to resume in total force. The industry at this phase does need support from the government in order to develop," Yaleng says.

Yaleng admits that even with some investors and resources at his disposal, he withal faced some financial and distribution challenges. The production of the flick itself cost effectually $70,000 with another $10,000 spent on marketing and promotion. Tiny amounts compared to most Hollywood budgets, but a considerable investment for whatsoever film fabricated here in Cambodia.

"For me every bit a picture show producer, the pandemic was elimination my pockets. I had ongoing expenses but no revenues coming in from new films. To keep making films, I had no other choice but to borrow coin from the bank to support the product costs. And when we did that, we didn't really know when the cinemas would be reopening. It's taking a big risk – if the motion-picture show is a flop, our company could go bankrupt.

"Another challenge is we cannot physically bring the film to screen it overseas, though we are going to well-nigh join some film festivals in Prc, the U.s.a. and Malaysia and at the cease of 2022 around October or Nov I'll bring Covid-19 Life Crisis for a screening in Busan, South Korea," Yaleng says.

Greed turns to grief in a scene featuring Yaleng in the motion picture Covid-19 Life Crisis. SUPPLIED

Yaleng – who in the past has produced and starred in ghost and horror movies – says that he's done with that genre for at present and he revealed that his adjacent project will be a dramatic motion picture with an underlying lesson about life, even if the potential profits from films like that are less than that of ghost stories.

"I want more than people to watch these kinds of serious movies, so they don't retrieve that Khmer movie theatre is nothing but horror movies. We tin can practice something else that is ameliorate and more original than just another scary movie," he says.

Yaleng – who is often the screenwriter, managing director, producer and star of his ain movies – also urges local production companies to build a relationship with the Cambodia Department of Cinema as a step forrard towards having their worked screened at international motion picture festivals.

"To augment our opportunities to showcase our piece of work, our product quality should be recognised by our Kingdom of cambodia Department of Picture palace. They can evaluate our scripts and estimate our piece of work's quality to determine if we're set for international film festivals," he says.

The Banteay Meanchey born producer has screened his previous films in Thailand, Laos, Brunei, Malaysia, People's republic of china, Hong Kong, French republic and the United states of america, but his greatest ambition is only to see Cambodian people come to watch locally-made movies together at the Kingdom'southward cinemas as big happy families.

"I actually want to see Central khmer families enjoy Central khmer movies together, number 1. But if we also desire Khmer movies to gain greater glory here in Asia and then get the attention of studios and distributors in Hollywood, we all must work together with our fellow producers and directors in the industry here and together with our audiences, we can fulfil that dream," Yaleng says.

Covid-19 Life Crunch premiered on May xix and is all the same being screened at Legend Movie theater, Major Cineplex past Smart and Prime Cineplex Cambodia.

Source: https://www.phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle/debts-lies-despair-khmer-drama-shows-greeds-modern-face

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