When you love what you do, it’s not work. Photo: Filepic
When Michael Chai was a kid, he loved movies. So much so that he once waited an hour to get tickets at the old Cathay cinema in Kuala Lumpur. Movies were a big part of his life. He never imagined that when he grew up, it would remain that way.
But one day in Phnom Penh, on his way to the airport heading home, he noticed a perfect place to house a cinema: the roof of a city mall. Cambodia then had no real cinema. He decided to start the country’s first modern cinema. Despite a lot of naysayers insisting it would not work, and no experience in the movie business, he did it. Successfully.
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