Anocha Suwichakornpong is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter and producer.
14 Facts About Anocha Suwichakornpong
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Anocha Suwichakornpong is currently Professor of Film at Columbia University, where she advises thesis students in the MFA Film Program and teaches film directing.
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Anocha Suwichakornpong was formerly Visiting Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University.
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Anocha Suwichakornpong has directed four feature films and over a dozen shorts films.
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Anocha Suwichakornpong's films include Come Here ; By the Time It Gets Dark ; and Mundane History.
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Anocha Suwichakornpong's films have been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of the Moving Image, New York; TIFF Cinematheque, Toronto; Cinema Moderne, Montreal; and Olhar De Cinema, Brazil, among others.
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Anocha Suwichakornpong's work, informed by the socio-political history of Thailand, has received international critical acclaim and numerous awards.
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Anocha Suwichakornpong is the recipient of the 2019 Prince Claus award for:.
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Anocha Suwichakornpong was born in Thailand 1976 to second generation Chinese immigrants.
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Anocha Suwichakornpong spent her early childhood in Pattaya before moving to England at the age of fourteen.
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Anocha Suwichakornpong co-founded her production company, Electric Eel Films, in Bangkok in 2006.
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Anocha Suwichakornpong is the first filmmaker in Columbia University's MFA Film Program to receive tenure-track since Milos Forman in 1978.
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Anocha Suwichakornpong's debut feature, Mundane History, is a family drama about the friendship that develops between a young, paralyzed man from a wealthy Bangkok family and his male nurse from Isan in the north of Thailand.
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Anocha Suwichakornpong has directed over a dozen shorts and video installations and is the co-director of Krabi, 2562 with British artist Ben Rivers.