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Heng Tola

Cambodian film director

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ30591206
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Heng Tola is a Businessman, Developer, Cambodian film director and producer. He was born in 1977 in Battambang Province, Cambodia. He started to do business in year 2000. He was renovated Kirirum Cinema and operated on 22 December 2002. Because of the problem between Khmer anti Thai in 2003 cinema can't screen Thai Fim that force him to produce Khmer movies. He started to produce Khmer films in 2003 production name CamPro Production Co., Ltd. He has produced 15 titles include Gratefulness 2003, Neang Neath 2004, The Forest 2005, The Haunted House 2005, Motherless 2005, Villa Horror 2005, Ghost of Banana Tree 2005, 24 Hours Horror 2006, The Wall Of Love 2006, Mr. Mao 2006, The Game 2006, The Painter 2006, Neang Khiev 2006, Klach Ei Nhom 2006, The Mother 2017.

In 2007 till now he started in real estate business and developer he operated the Gas Station, Hotel, Cinema, Golf Course, Boxing Arena, Fitness Center, Night Market, Restaurant and Housing Project in his hometown Battambang Province.

Background

Tola founded the film production company CamPro Production in 2003.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Heng Tola” as cambodian film director. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Heng, Tola and Cambodian.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 2000, 2002, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Heng, Tola and Cambodian providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30591206. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1977, 2000, 2002 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from Heng Tola” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.