Cambodian American filmmaker Caylee So left home and joined the U.S. Army at 18. While watching movies allowed her to escape her world, one changed her life and made her decide to be a filmmaker: Hilary Swank and Clint Eastwood’s “Million Dollar Baby.”
Director Caylee So in action while filming"The Harvest" Photo courtesy: Doua Moua
After the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, her family immigrated to the United States and settled in Northern Virginia.To escape her world, she watched movies. Among all of the films she watched, one changed her life and made her decide to be a filmmaker. And that movie was Hilary Swank and Clint Eastwood’s “Million Dollar Baby.”
Now a director, Caylee So, together with actor-writer-producer Doua Moua have made “The Harvest,” a film that delves into the psyche of each family member, their dark secrets, their passions, their strengths, and weaknesses, and the love that keeps them together.We were able to interview director So by email.The need to see this very specific Southeast Asian family on screen and the feeling that I had known them my whole life.
With Chrisna, who plays Sue , we really wanted to cast a Southeast Asian actor. And this is not a small task. We watched and mulled over so many audition tapes; we even auditioned friends and family of friends. We did a couple of screen tests, but essentially, I knew I wanted Chrisna .What is the significance of the title to you?
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