Film · Documentary, Adventure, History, War
Mayor of Lowell (2025)
From Refugee to World Leader
This short documentary chronicles the culture and arts of Cambodian Americans and the Lowell, MA community through the eyes of Sokhary Chau, the first Cambodian American Mayor in the United States. Chau immigrated to the U.S. at seven years old to escape the Khmer Rouge genocide. Through this unique story that showcases the best of Lowell—immigrant success, assimilation, history, and the development of the arts—we see a man born into a war-torn country who comes to America to be a first-in-the-nation leader.
- Director
- Hunter Berube
- Writers
- Hunter R Berube, Kayla Dalton, Murat Metshin
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- March 21, 2025
Cast
- Sokhary ChauMayor of Lowell
- Somong RattanayangMayor's Wife
- Philip ChauMayor's Son
- Matthew ChauMayor's Son
- Erastus MwangiAssistant to the Mayor
- Sid “Sid Ink” OuTattoo Artist
- Bernard LongPortrait Painter
- Yanna OkInterim Director, Amherst Media
- Kennis MorPresident, Indras' Artistic Creations
- Jay LinnehanPresident, Greater Lowell Community Foundation
