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GOLDEN VOICE (2022)    
Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor


Forty years after the Cambodian genocide, a transgender man returns to the village where he not only survived but miraculously found queer and transgender community, including the love of his life.

Festivals
BFI Flare Festival
Taiwan International Queer Festival
Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival
San Diego Asian Film Festival
Cambodia International Film Festival
Out on Film, Inside Out Toronto
Gaze International Film Festival
KASHISH Pride Film Festival

Select Screenings
 UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Queer Archive Symposium
University of Southern California, Circa: Queer Histories Festival

Awards
Gaze International Film Festival, Best International Short Film 

Credits
Directed by: Mars Verrone
Produced by: Tabitha Payne, Mars Verrone
Director of Photography: Mars Verrone
Edited by: Mars Verrone
Co-Producers: Pheung Saophorn, Pheung Sophea, Srun Srorn
Original Music by: Kei Watanabe
Additional Cinematography: Tabitha Payne, Pheung Saophorn, Pheung Sophea, Srun Srorn
Dialogue Editor & Sound Mixer: Brennan Rosset 
Color Grade: Adison Oliveras
Language Services: Multilingual Connections
Additional Translations: Vilayvann Ky, Vong Madavin, Tabitha Payne, Pheung Sophea, Srun Srorn 
Golden Voice was produced in collaboration with CamASEAN Youth’s Future, a community organization focused on the rights of LGBTQI+ and other marginalized peoples in Cambodia
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