One third of Jacobson's three-film K11 Project
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That’s what Interpol told the makers of Holly as they filmed on location in the red light district of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. But Guy Jacobson and co. lived to tell the tale.
Friday, June 6, 2008
By FilmStew Staff
A few years after a backpacking trip during which he was solicited by group of five to seven-year-old Cambodian prostitutes, New York investment banker Guy Jacobson was back in Phnom Penh producing Holly, the tale of an American card shark living in the capital (Ron Livingston) who tries to rescue a local 12-year-old girl from a life of paid sex (Thuy Nugyen). That’s when he received urgent word from international crime fighting organization Interpol.
“They said, 'You guys are insane'," Jacobson recalls in an interview with the Delaware News. “You are in the most dangerous place in the world for shooting this film. You're going to die. Get the hell out of there."
Instead, Jacobson surrounded his crew with 40 bodyguards armed with automatic weapons and saw the enterprise through, though for fear of theft, he decided to take no chances by flying the completed print out on a private plane. Now, with the film making its way around the country since last November and opening this weekend for a run in Grandview, Ohio, he will be on hand for one of the Saturday evening screenings to take part in a Q&A.
Jacobson has partnered on this project with Lexis Nexis, in an attempt to publicize the shocking plight of the country’s young women (more information can be found at RedLightChildren.org, the website of a campaign started by the financier). It’s an admirable project made by a man who, shocked by the aforementioned 2002 encounter with prepubescent girls, decided he needed to find out more.
Along with Holly, Jacobson has spearheaded two other films as part of what he dubs the K11 Project. The Virgin Harvest is an HD documentary about the Cambodian prostitution problem directed by Charles Kiselyak, while The K11 Journey chronicles what the filmmakers had to endure while on location in the Asian country.
That’s what Interpol told the makers of Holly as they filmed on location in the red light district of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. But Guy Jacobson and co. lived to tell the tale.
Friday, June 6, 2008
By FilmStew Staff
A few years after a backpacking trip during which he was solicited by group of five to seven-year-old Cambodian prostitutes, New York investment banker Guy Jacobson was back in Phnom Penh producing Holly, the tale of an American card shark living in the capital (Ron Livingston) who tries to rescue a local 12-year-old girl from a life of paid sex (Thuy Nugyen). That’s when he received urgent word from international crime fighting organization Interpol.
“They said, 'You guys are insane'," Jacobson recalls in an interview with the Delaware News. “You are in the most dangerous place in the world for shooting this film. You're going to die. Get the hell out of there."
Instead, Jacobson surrounded his crew with 40 bodyguards armed with automatic weapons and saw the enterprise through, though for fear of theft, he decided to take no chances by flying the completed print out on a private plane. Now, with the film making its way around the country since last November and opening this weekend for a run in Grandview, Ohio, he will be on hand for one of the Saturday evening screenings to take part in a Q&A.
Jacobson has partnered on this project with Lexis Nexis, in an attempt to publicize the shocking plight of the country’s young women (more information can be found at RedLightChildren.org, the website of a campaign started by the financier). It’s an admirable project made by a man who, shocked by the aforementioned 2002 encounter with prepubescent girls, decided he needed to find out more.
Along with Holly, Jacobson has spearheaded two other films as part of what he dubs the K11 Project. The Virgin Harvest is an HD documentary about the Cambodian prostitution problem directed by Charles Kiselyak, while The K11 Journey chronicles what the filmmakers had to endure while on location in the Asian country.
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