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As 18-year-old Sokly Ny (Don Bonus) struggles to graduate from high school, his family is harassed in the housing projects, his eldest brother cannot fill a dead father’s shoes and his youngest brother ends up in a youth prison.
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Oct 6, 1995 · A.K.A. Don Bonus: Directed by Spencer Nakasako, Sokly Ny. With Arnold Y. Kim, Sokly Ny. This diaristic documentary follows Sokly Ny, an under-priveledged and under-represented immigrant minority student, through his final year of high school in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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This is a vlog-style documentary following the life of a high school student, Sokly “Don Bonus” Ny. Living in San Francisco, Bonus and his family are refugees from Cambodia. The film is a cross between a home movie and a video diary, as Bonus details his struggles in high school, the violent environment of the Sunnydale Housing Projects, and famili...
This film is an untouched depiction of refugee life as told by a teenager. It is powerful in the simplicity of showing, instead of telling, the trials for a refugee’s survival in America. It contains the raw emotions of an 18 year old who craves stability, close familial relationships, and to be heard. There is no opportunity for the film to take i...
A raw and revealing video diary by a Cambodian-born teenager who turns the camera on himself. Under the guidance of veteran filmmaker Spencer Nakasako, Sokly Don Bonus Ny offers a stark...
Working in collaboration with veteran filmmaker Spencer Nakasako, Sokly Ny (a.k.a. “Don Bonus”), an eighteen-year-old Cambodian refugee growing up in public housing in the San Francisco Bay Area, documents his senior year of high school.
This diaristic documentary follows Sokly Ny, an under-priveledged and under-represented immigrant minority student, through his final year of high school in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ny, A.K.A. Don Bonus, provides commentary on his life, recounting the difficulty and triumph of his everyday experience.
A.K.A. Don Bonus (College/Institution) After escaping the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, the Ny family became one of thousands of refugees faced with resettlement in the U.S. IMDb 8.0 55min 1995
