Mao Ayuth

Known for: Directing

Born: July 7, 1944 - Died: April 14, 2021

Mao Ayuth was a Cambodian filmmaker and politician. One of the few filmmakers to survive the Khmer Rouge regime, he was noted, alongside Dy Saveth, Yvon Hem, and Bun Yim, as connecting contemporary Cambodian cinema with its golden age of the 1960s and 1970s.