Megan Webster teaches Humanities at St. George’s High School in Montreal. In 2008, her grade 11 students took on the biggest school project of their lives. They decided to make a documentary film about life under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

From 1975 to 1979, the Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia during a period which is often referred to as the “Cambodian Genocide.” Under the dictatorship of Pol Pot, roughly 2 million Cambodians lost their lives as a result of forced labour, starvation and execution. Knowing very little about the Cambodian genocide or filmmaking, Megan’s students produced a stunning 30 minute film that not only changed their lives, but the lives of many in Montreal’s Cambodian community.