Winner of the 2010 Sundance World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize, Enemies of the People follows the project of Thet Sambath, whose parents were among the approximately two million people who perished under the Khmer Rouge regime in the late 1970s. With unprecedented access and groundbreaking confessions from the notorious “Brother Number Two,” Nuon Chea, and from numerous grassroots killers, he uncovers terrifying personal explanations for the genocide by allowing the perpetrators to speak for themselves.

The Festival is delighted to present Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath—filmmakers of Enemies of the People—with our 2010 Nestor Almendros Award for courage in filmmaking.

Human Rights Watch has worked on Cambodia for nearly 20 years, including efforts to improve the structure and performance of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia, established as a mixed national-international court within the Cambodian justice system to try “senior leaders” and “those most responsible” for crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge in 1975-79. http://www.hrw.org/en/asia/cambodia