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From local independent productions to Hollywood blockbusters, all films screened legally in the Kingdom are subject to government censorship. But what are the boundaries?

While Rithy Panh will be the first Cambodian director to walk down the Oscars red carpet next month, many filmmakers at home are faced with a stickier path: through a good deal of red tape. Some directors report no problems while others have had their releases delayed indefinitely, but one thing is for certain: no film can be shown in Cambodias cinemas unless the government says so.

Under Cambodian law, every feature film released in the Kingdom must be approved by the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts film censorship board. Such scrutiny is normal in the region, with every ASEAN state exercising direct film censorship to some degree, while government censorship in Western nations is usually only reserved for cases of extreme obscenity, such as depictions of pedophilia, bestiality or real-life violence.

For local productions in Cambodia, scripts must also be submitted prior to filming. If the film is rejected at either stage, it cannot be legally screened in Cambodia. Cambodian film censors have most recently held up the release of Martin Scorseses The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo Dicaprio, which contains graphic sex scenes, drug use and more than 500 uses of the word f***.

Chhay Bora has directed two movies since becoming a filmmaker in 2010. PHOTO SUPPLIED

But filmmaker Chhay Bora, who directed the yet-to-be released 3.50, said that the censorship board has never explained to him their grounds for evaluating movies.

Its like walking in the jungle with no road map to follow, said Bora, whose film on sex trafficking was supposed to be released last October but never received final approval. Although his script was approved, Bora said that the censorship board has failed to reach a verdict on the final version. No specific cuts have been ordered by the ministry, he said, but feedback he received suggested that censorship board members were concerned about the movies heavy social commentary.

The Ministry of Culture film department said they didnt ban the film, but they didnt grant the licence yet, said Bora, adding that although the films dialogue did not seem to cause controversy, the censorship board expressed concern over not less than 10 shots. Some of the criticism, Bora said, was over shots that the board claimed represented Cambodia in a bad light, such as a taxi driver throwing a cigarette out the window and a scene within the impoverished White Building community on Sothearos Boulevard.

Bora also said that other scenes were too political for the censors comfort, such as a shot of a character walking down a dusty road with Prime Minister Hun Sens office visible in the background.

But it is not just edgy, socially provocative films that are sent to the censors. Sok Visal, whose debut feature film Gems on the Run premiered last December, said that the censorship board was never hostile to his project but expected a clean moral message for his family-friendly comedy, which involves two friends transporting $3 million of stolen gems. Since the plot features a police officer working with criminals, Visal made sure his script approached the subject with care.

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Northern Arizona Universitys Graduate English Organization is hosting the 14th Annual Peaks Interdisciplinary Conference this weekend.

The topic of the conference is Censorship and Silence: Reading Between the Lines. According to the conference website, the purpose of the 14th Annual Peaks Interdisciplinary Conference is to strike sparks regarding censorship and silence in the interdisciplinary arena.

Whether we consider banned media, silenced groups, or even small acts of passivity, reading between the lines of the spoken and unspoken is becoming increasingly necessitated in todays society, the conference website states.

The keynote speaker will be NAU Spanish professor and Director of Latin American Studies Robert Neustadt.

In his presentation, titled Looking Beyond the Wall: Encountering the Humanitarian Crisis on the Border with Students, Neustadt will describe the field trips he has been taking with students to the Arizona-Mexico border since 2010.

Topics will include the environmental, financial, political and humanitarian costs of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, as well as the us versus them perspective on undocumented immigration and how experiential education can break down barriers.

The presentation will begin at 1 p.m. Saturday in Room 120 in the Liberal Arts Building.

The Peaks Conference will run today through Sunday in the Liberal Arts Building, which is Building 18 on the NAU campus. Attendance is free to the public.

More information and a complete schedule of events is available online at peaksconference.weebly.com.

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The Monitor's Peter Ford knows censorship happens all the time on his China beat. But when it happened to him in an interview with CNN, he felt punched in the gut.

Its not as if Ive been physically assaulted, I grant you. But I certainly feel violated that nauseous sensation when you realize your home has been burgled.

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Ive been censored.

One moment I was on the TV screen, a guest of CNNs On China talk show discussing press freedom in China, and the next I wasnt. The screen went black. The Chinese censors had pulled the plug. Where there was light, they brought darkness. Nobody in mainland China could watch the program.

Well of course, you will say. You are in China. What do you expect? The freedom to talk publicly about the lack of freedom?

And, of course, I know perfectly well that almost all of my Chinese colleagues are censored, or forced to self-censor, every day.

But this was my first time. And the first time is different.

As well as my day job being The Christian Science Monitors correspondent in China, I am also president of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China. That means people come to me when they want to know about foreign correspondents working conditions in China.

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