Khanteya and Grey Rainbow Journey

Here's our latest press release about Changemakers Productions featuring two  scripts we have recently written based on a memoir and a novel -- Khanteya and Grey Rainbow Journey.

PRESS RELEASE   8-3-10

Subject Line: Fast-growing production company has scripts based on a  California businesswoman’s dramatic escape from Communist death camps in Cambodia and an award-winning coming-of-age novel in Native American community in Florida

CHANGEMAKERS PRODUCTIONS is a fast-growing production company specializing in low-budget features, shorts, adapting scripts from novels and memoirs, and original scripts. Here are two new scripts based on a memoir and novel. The author of Khanteya just filmed a trailer in Cambodia to introduce the script.

Here are brief descriptions of these two projects. 

KHANTEYA . This script is based on Julie Thong’s true story of courage, determination, forgiveness, and spiritual belief in describing her flight to freedom from the death camps in Cambodia to the U.S. as a teenager.  Since then she has made a new life for herself in America where she has become a successful business woman and inspirational speaker, now living in Long Beach.  Before the Cambodian Communists took over the country in the 1960s, she came from a very successful Cambodian family, the first of eight children.  Her whole family was targeted due to her father’s success as a province official.  In 24 hours, the family had to leave town and was split up.  She spent many months in a camp for teenage girls, where she spent her days digging the ground and building water channels, constantly facing the fear of being raped or killed.  But after weeks of lying for dead in a death pit, she saw some birds eating berries and gained enough strength from eating the berries to get out of the pile one night with a full moon.  She felt God was with her, and fueled by her faith, she found her way back to her parents’ village and their shack, where they hid her for several weeks, until the Vietnamese Communists took over and disbanded the concentration camps.  After that, she helped reunite her family, working with smugglers to get them out of Cambodia, and after escaping to Thailand, she and her family emigrated to America.  Along the way, she found love while working as a volunteer taking care of babies in a hospital in Thailand, though ultimately distance and tragedy kept them apart.  This script tells this amazing story. 

GRAY RAINBOW JOURNEY is a script based on an award-winning coming-of-age novel set in a Native American community in the Florida Everglades when the mother of Dina, a Christian convert in her early 20s disappears. Dina discovers in her mother's journals a hidden relationship with Jack Turner, the powerful witch who opposes the Christian faith, which she and her mother have embraced. Worse, Turner is the step-father of her childhood sweetheart, Marty Osceola--and her church forbids their love.  Further complications ensue when she is also attracted to an influential Native Christian evangelist, Aaron Burning Rain, who wishes a serious relationship with her; but she is continually drawn into on and off relationships with Marty, who keeps trying to return her to traditional spirituality and practices. Finally, after Aaron returns to his native Oklahoma to resume his ministry and Marty leaves town after a big fight with her, Dina moves back to care for her ailing uncle. Soon after, her mother returns to town with a new child, fathered by Jack Turner. But, determined to rear the child as a Christian, she lives in secret and in terror, until Dina’s uncle’s miraculous healing brings an unexpected reconciliation.

For more information and to get a copy of the script or arrange interviews with the authors, please contact:

Karen Andrews

Changemakers Productions

(510) 339-1625