"(Lorn) is the Asian Clint Eastwood.a brilliant writer/director who brings the struggles of (genocide) survivors to new audiences so that the world will never forget."
-CAMTV Channel 18
Long Beach, CA
"For Cambodian native Sam Lorn.(the) independent film Lovesick is as intensely personal and unique as his own story"
-the Journal News
Rockland County, NY
Sam is a Cambodian-born movie-maker. He's looking to direct his third feature-length film. Sam is an accomplished independent filmmaker with thirteen years of experience in the film industry. As an actor, screenwriter, producer and director, he is a pioneer in Asian-American cinema. He has produced three feature-length films: (1999) Young Survivor,
90 mins Action Drama, (2004), 93 mins drama/romance.
He has written ten screenplays :that bring modern Cambodian-American experiences to the big screen for diverse audiences. Lorn and raised in Cambodia, he survived the killing fields and emigrated to America soon after. As a young man, Sam settled in Long Beach, California with his surviving relatives. In 1991 he moved to New York City to pursue a filmmaking career.
In New York he studied acting at HB Studios, He also graduated from the world-renowned New York Film Academy. He learned about all aspects of the film and distribution industry by working at Assembly Films, Screen Gems, The American Museum of Natural History, Shelter Films and several other independent production companies.
Sam has worked with the best in the film industry with such directors
as Robert De Niro, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Jonathan Damme, Alan Rudolph,
Rick Famuyiwa, Alfred Cheung, Bruce Law, and Derek Wan. He has also worked
with actors such as Christopher Walken, Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicholas Cage
and Tom Hanks. As a director, writer, producer and actor, Sam's feature
film credits include: Little Patriot, Moving Target, Young Survivor, Manhattan
Midnight and Lovesick. His latest film, Lovesick, was realized with much
help from Angelina Jolie. The compelling film tells a modern-day Romeo and
Juliet-type-story with a Khmer-American twist. A young Khmer-American woman
is forced into an arranged marriage when she falls in love with another
man. She is faced with the dilemma of honoring her family and respecting
tradition or following her heart. Completed in 2004, Lovesick is out on
DVD in stores: Best Buy, Tower Records, Target, Sun Coast, Circuit City
and many more stores to come.
In 1997 Lorn founded Refugee Production Company Refugee Productions and Forlorn Films a New York production company and a distribution company specializing in independent films.
To date he has written ten screenplays. His most recent screenplay Glass Road tells the story of a Khmer adoptee.
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