We would like to welcome our newest member to our CTFF family, Robert Carleton-Chhaing!

Visual Anthropologist, Robert Carleton focuses on art, particularly film and music, as a tool for social change.  His first documentary film, From the Heart of Brahma, is about Cambodian Classical Dancer and LBGTQ activist, Prumsodun Ok.   He has worked on multiple documentary shorts with Meta House/E.C.C.C. in Phnom Penh such as short docs on the civil parties to the Khmer Rouge tribunal and as editor for Sao Sopheak’s film about Sou Sotheavy, the only known transgendered survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide. Most recently he was cinematographer for the Smithsonian funded film by director praCh Ly, SATOOK. 

He is currently in post-production on a film about British photographer Colin Grafton’s work in Cambodia and a documentary about hip-hop artist praCh Ly’s KhmerAspora performance with the Long Beach Symphony.  He is on the advisory board of Cambodia Town in Long Beach, California where he has worked on multiple projects including video oral histories of survivors of the Cambodian Genocide. Currently, Carleton is a part time lecturer in visual anthropology at California State University Long Beach and works as a camera operator and editor for the ethnographic film production company, Elemental Productions.