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a.k.a. Don Bonus: Filmmaker Interview

In 'a.k.a. Don Bonus,' Cambodian-born teen Sokly Ny turns the camera on himself to document his senior year of high school in the inner city of San Francisco. In this 1996 interview, filmmaker Spencer Nakasako and Sokly Ny sit down with POV to explain how the two found each other and how they began working on the film.

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