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This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources.Find sources: "The Conscience of Nhem En" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2021)

2008 American film

The Conscience of Nhem En
Directed by	Steven Okazaki
Produced by	Steven Okazaki
Productioncompany	Farallon Films
Distributed by	HBO
Release date	2008 (2008)
Running time	34 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Conscience of Nhem En is a 26-minute documentary directed by Steven Okazaki, telling the stories of three survivors of the Tuol Sleng Prison. Also known as S-21, Tuol Sleng was where 17,000 Cambodians were imprisoned and killed in the late 1970s. The film follows a young soldier responsible for taking the ID photos of thousands of people before they were tortured and murdered by the Khmer Rouge. The documentary was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Short.[1]

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Nhem En was 16 years old when he was the staff photographer at the Tuol Sleng Prison, also known as Security-21, where from 1975 to 1979 approximately 17,000 people were registered and photographed, then imprisoned and tortured before being killed. Only seven people are documented to have walked out of S-21 alive. Three of them tell their stories in the film. Bou Meng, 34 years old at the time, survived because the prison needed an artist to paint portraits of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot. Chum Mey, 42 at the time, survived because he could fix sewing machines. Chim Math, 20 at the time, does not know why she survived.

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1. ^ Chris Steller (January 22, 2009). "Politics at the Oscars: Documentaries nominated for Academy Awards". Minnesota Independent. Retrieved January 22, 2009.

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• Official site on Farallon Films
• The Conscience of Nhem En at IMDb
• The Conscience of Nhem En on Vimeo
• Original Photographs from Tuol Sleng (S-21) prison by Nhem En

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