สนับสนุนโดย สำนักงานศิลปวัฒนธรรมร่วมสมัย กระทรวงวัฒนธรรม Supported by Office of Contemporary Art And Culture ,Ministry Of Culture

หน้าแรก
ข่าว
วิจารณ์
สัมภาษณ์
บทความพิเศษ
รายงานหนังไทยในเทศกาลหนังต่างๆ
รายชื่อหนังสือและบทความเกี่ยวกับหนังไทย
รายชื่อ ที่อยู่ หน่วยงาน
 
รายชื่อหนังเก่า
 
 
 
 

   
Women Marching to Directing
  21 February 2005
   
 

Along the emergence of current New Thai Cinema, there is an alarming increase of women directors while there was no single record of them in the past history of Thai cinema. These directors come from different backgrounds and create a variety of styles, from film genres to experimental.

Starting in 2001, Mingmongkol Sonakul silently made her first independent project I-san Special under the small budget of US$75,000. The film won the Netpac-Fipresci Critics prize at the 2002 Singapore Film Festival. She has now produced an independent project 3 Friends (also co-directed), Pen-ek Rattanarueng's Invisible Waves and Jira Maligul's A Beautiful Mine.

Experimental shorts queen Pimpaka Tohveera made a compromise with the studio GMM Pictures in her directorial debut One Night Husband (2003), a story about a young woman who just gets to know her husband's life after his disappearance in the wedding night. However, she decides to go back to her independent route for her second project - a documentary about a Thai female activist.

The name of Acharawadee Thaosathien is almost unknown in the film community. But if you get a chance to hang out in a high-class crowd, she is a common face that you meet in almost every party. Acharawadee is the first high-class woman who wants to try her directorial debut entitled Be True (2004), a romantic comedy of Max who falls in love with a high-class lady.

TV series director Pa-oon Jantarasiri moved to direct in a bigger screen with the Korean remake The Letter. It is a memorial work given to her late friend Duangkamon Limcharoen who pushed to produce the movie before her death.

Buranee Rachaiboon and Nida Suthas na Ayuthaya, veteran TV commercials directors, become the first director sisters in Thailand . In the road of silver screen, they decided to direct a cannibalistic Zee-oui (2004), based on a true story about a serial killer who eats children's organs.

Sasithorn Ariyavicha breaks out from her fellows by going straight to an experimental feature Birth of the Seanema . She is one of a few independent filmmakers in Thailand, where she struggled to do everything from directing, shooting, scriptwriting and editing in order to maintain her experimental direction.

Former Miss Thailand Araya Chumsai na Ayuthaya and Nisa Kongsri are shooting a documentary.

Actress-turned-director Mona Nahm has made an action-adventure The Remaker about a couple who try to fight against their destiny following their previous lives. The film was produced by the wellknown director Oxide Pang.

Sukanya Wongsathapat is trying her directorial debut with the real-life female activist in Mee Joo, Rural TV. She is the wellknown producer for Ong Bak 's director Prachya Pinklaew.

Ruethairath Wongsirasawat is long known as an executive in the leading advertising company JW Thompson before being approached to direct the 1980s teen hit sequel Wai Olawon 4. Her experience as a mother of 17-year-old boy is considered as a good share of the two main characters in the original story. This time the sequel focuses on the parental attempt to solve their daughter's triangle love.

Despite its impressive number of women in the current directing scene, unfortunately many of them joined the circle only at a temporary state. They have only one work. Only a few of them can go on to do the second works.

Some of these women are given directorial opportunities only because of their promise on the directing of acting skill. And then cinematic techniques are left under the control of male producers. One woman complained over the crew's respect that was preferably given to the producer. She decided to concentrate on the actress's performance rather than the overall control over the movie.

 

 

 

Everything you want to know about Thai film, Thai cinema
edited by Anchalee Chaiworaporn อัญชลี ชัยวรพร   designed by Nat  
COPYRIGHT 2004 http://www.thaicinema.org. All Rights Reserved. contact: ancha999 at gmail.com
By accessing and browsing the Site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, these copyrights.
If you do not agree to these copyrights, please do not use the Site.