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Immersive Doc ‘Stay Alive, My Son’ Uses Compassion to Spur Action

Ben Croll Prosecutor-turned-immersive storyteller Victoria Bousis has seen the often-separate strands of her professional lives converge in unexpected ways as she’s toured her recent project, “Stay Alive, My Son.” Using Cineplay – a mix of cinema with gameplay mechanics – the immersive experience adapts the memoires of human rights activist Pin Yathay, allowing users to embody Yathay’s story of heartbreak and hope through the Cambodian genocide. After premiering out of South by Southwest and playing Venice Immersive, “Stay Alive, My Son” showcased at this week’s NewImages Festival in Paris and was recently selected for Annecy’s VR competition in June.
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Crowds flock to man’s farm as ‘black hole’ in his spine will 'cause end of the world'
Cambodia to wait out the end of days after a politician warned that the only place to survive an impending world-destroying flood would be his home.This comes after politician-turned-cult leader Khem Veasna took to his Facebook page to share a series of apocalyptic predictions, spurred on by the apparent musings of a "black hole" that he said was growing on his spine."I can’t sleep because whenever I sleep, my spinal cord is pulling so hard, because the world is breaking down, and the water is flowing into the gap," he said.READ MORE: Cause of Mikhail Gorbachev's famous head mark and how it inspired Chernobyl nicknameHe added that the black hole had sent him messages that a flood of biblical proportions was set to eradicate the entire planet and urged his devoted fans to join him on his farm, the only place on the planet set to survive the washout, Vice World News reported.People from across the country answered the call - authorities believe between 15000 and 20000 people congregated at Veasna's farmhouse in a sleepy part of Cambodia’s Siem Reap province, with some travelling from as far as South Korea to avoid meeting an apocalyptic end.Photos posted on Veasna’s Facebook page, which boasts more than 370,000 followers, show the large assembled crowd, which was so large that not everyone could fit on its grounds, and some were forced to camp outside or rent accommodation nearby.Doomsday preppers at the farmhouse were treated to a series of preachings by the president an opposition group in the southeast Asian nation, the League for Democracy Party (LDP).The enormous crowds concerned locals and officials alike, who fear the apocalypse pilgrims aren't treating the area with respect.They even complained the gathered crowds
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Monster fish weighing same as a grizzly bear becomes world record-breaking catch
A monster stingray, weighing some 661lb, has been caught in Cambodia – smashing the previous record for a freshwater fish.The venomous fish, a distant relative of the shark, was caught in the Mekong River.The prize catch is some 15lb heavier than the previous fresh water record holder, a Mekong giant catfish caught in Thailand in 2005.It means the record-breaking catch weighs the same as an adult grizzly bear.Zeb Hogan, a biologist who leads Wonders of the Mekong, a USAID-funded conservation project, told the BBC: "In 20 years of researching giant fish in rivers and lakes on six continents, this is the largest freshwater fish that we've encountered or that's been documented anywhere worldwide."Finding and documenting this fish is remarkable,” Hogan added, “and a rare positive sign of hope, even more so because it occurred in the Mekong, a river that's currently facing many challenges”.The huge fish was caught by a local fisherman from Koh Preah island on the night of June 13.He called to tell researchers that he had caught what he described as a "very big" stingray.When measured the fish turned out to be seven feet, two inches across and over 13ft long.The giant stingray was studied and tagged before being released back into the water."The stingray find is evidence that the natural world can still yield new and extraordinary discoveries, and that many of the largest aquatic creatures remain woefully understudied," Dr Hogan said.This is the second giant stingray examined by the team since May - the earlier one weighed 399lb.The giant freshwater stingray is an endangered species, having been overfished for decades by people who want to eat them, and those that want to show them off in aquariums.When hooked, the monster
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