cinema street
The Cambodia Film Commission and Cine Hub are directly across from the department of cinema and cultural diffusion. Visible down the road is the Bophana Audiovisual Center. (Josephine Baliling)

Cinema Street: Heritage-Rich Thoroughfare Dreams of Renaissance

Most people traveling down Phnom Penh’s St. 200 see it as just another unassuming thoroughfare; a small stretch they breeze past on their way to someplace else. But Chandara So sees it differently. He sees it as the exciting center of a new Cambodian film renaissance.