Premiered on PBS' acclaimed documentary showcase, P.O.V. 
July 22, 2003

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THE FLUTE PLAYER is a one-hour documentary film 
about the life and work of Arn Chorn-Pond.

If the Khmer Rouge had not taken over Cambodian in 1975, Arn Chorn-Pond probably would have carried on his family’s legacy and become an opera star. Instead, at the age of nine Arn was thrust into the darkness of Cambodia’s ghastly Killing Fields. For four long years Arn struggled to stay alive amidst torture, murder, and frontline combat. As his family and culture were destroyed, Arn’s musical talent kept him from perishing in a genocide that took the lives of 2 million Cambodians.

Now, after living in the U.S. for 20 years, Arn faces the dark shadows of his war-torn past as he fights to save Cambodia's once outlawed traditional music from extinction. An extraordinary story of survival, The Flute Player is a testament to one man's triumph over tragedy.
 
              
The Flute Player is produced by Over The Moon Productions, Inc. in association with the Independent Television Services (itvs) and the National Asian American Telecommunications Association with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. This film was supported by a grant from the Sundance Documentary Fund, a program of the Sundance Institute and by contributions from the Roy W. Dean Fund, the Wellspring Foundation, the LEF Foundation, the Peter S. Reed Foundation, and the Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund.
© 2003 Over The Moon Productions, Inc.