I was born on Cambodian New Year in a Thai refugee camp and my parents never told me how I got there.  NEW YEAR BABY is my personal documentary - a search for the truth about how my family survived the Khmer Rouge genocide and why they buried the truth for so long. My parents used to embarrass me.
They were oddballs, awkward immigrants who still fermented fish in the kitchen and sprouted mung beans in the bathtub.
All this time, I thought they were holding me back.  The truth is my parents carried me further than I can imagine -- across the border, over landmines and across the ocean to a new life in America.  My birth marked the end of the horror and the beginning of a future.
Before I knew their story, I couldn't even see my parents for who they are.
                                                                                                            - Socheata Poeuv