Aug 27, 2009 at 01:00PM

My friend Lee Rooklin told me about Skye Fitzgerald and his documentary when we started A Closer Look on the internet. "It's an important story," he told me. "You need to do a show about this." And he was right.

It's the story of the deliberate throwing of acid, usually into the faces of young women, in Cambodia .

The documentary follows the story of Tat Marina, a rising star in Cambodia’s emerging karaoke scene. After being coerced into an abusive relationship with government official Svay Sitha, Marina was attacked with acid by Sitha's wife in front of hundreds of witnesses. Finding Face documents the fracturing of Marina’s family across national borders, as well as her family members’ disparate responses to the fact that Marina’s attackers have never been arrested and there has never been justice in her case.

http://www.acloserlookradio.com/fitzgerald.php