…I AM CHUT WUTTY began as a film exposing dispossession and deforestation in Prey Lang forest, Cambodia.  Communities depend on the forest, collecting natural resins from trees that are now targeted by loggers.  These issues came to a head with a community protest in Sandan, where a rubber company, CRCK, is illegally cutting down thousands of resin trees.  At that protest, we met Chut Wutty.  Aside from the group we spoke about corruption in illegal logging, when the military police arrived. Wutty was thrown to the ground at gun point.  Immediately the network members rushed to help him—armed only with sticks.  Later he said, "If I don't do the work, no one will do it. People are too afraid."

In April 2012, Chut Wutty was shot and killed at a logging site in the Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia, where he was investigating illegal activities with two journalists…