Social Impact Media Awards (SIMA) began as the first and only international media competition to celebrate creative, human rights and humanitarian achievement. Today, SIMA is the most prestigious global curator of social impact, serving the independent film, academic and global social justice communities around the world.

This year, SIMA Traveling Series 2024 teams up with Meta House’s “Speak Out, Sisters” project, featuring a selection of documentaries by and about women from Cambodia and many other countries. Each night, a Cambodian female filmmaker shows and discusses her recent short film, followed by the screening of selected SIMA documentaries. Entrance is free. All films have English subtitles.

VOICES FILM FESTIVAL @ META HOUSE, DAY 3

Stories of Advocacy and Empowerment by Women

Cambodian-American filmmaker Thavary Krouch is the “Deputy Director of Film” for the New York City Film Office. She has broad experience in the US film industry, from producing and managing a distribution label to supporting independent and studio productions filming in NYC. Her films capture Khmer-American joy as much as their struggles. ARRANGEMENTS (2023, 12min) follows two estranged cousins, who reunite for a wedding. Old resentments and awkward tensions arise as they spend a day shopping for wedding floral arrangements.

* RADIO DADAAB (Kenya, 2023, 25 min): Dadaab, the world’s second largest refugee camp, faces a new influx of refugees. Fardowsa, a stateless female journalist born and raised in the camp, becomes a voice for the voiceless through the camp’s radio station, amplifying stories of climate, migration, and hope. Produced by Environmental Justice Foundation.

* TWICE COLONIZED (Canada/Denmark/Greenland/Sweden, 2023, 92 min: Aaju Peter is a force of nature. Filmmaker Lin Alluna portraits the renowned Greenlandic Inuit lawyer and activist who defends the human rights of Indigenous peoples of the Arctic. A fierce protector of her ancestral lands, Aaju Peter works to bring her colonizers in both Canada and Denmark to justice.