When Tep Rindaro was a child he used to sneak into the cinema with his elderly next-door-neighbor. He never paid; he just slunk in with his hand in his neighbor’s fooling the attendants into thinking the pair were father and son. Tep, 43, is now considered one of Cambodia’s most formidable actors and ironically, if his own father had survived the genocidal regime of the 1970s, Tep says he wouldn’t be where he is today. "Ever since I was a child I loved the movies, but my father didn’t approve of me pursuing a career in the film industry. Secretly, I’d made up my mind; I ajust had to bide my time. My father wanted me to study...
