Anocha Suwichakornpong

Anocha Suwichakornpong

Anocha Suwichakornpong (Thai: อโนชา สุวิชากรพงศ์, born 1976) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter and producer. She is Visiting Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. Her 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. Her work, informed by the socio-political history of Thailand, has received much international critical acclaim and numerous awards. She is the recipient of the 2019 Prince Claus award for "for pioneering a mode of intellectual feminist filmmaking, courageously and convincingly challenging hegemonic practices and established conventions, both in filmmaking and in society, thereby contributing significantly to artistic and social liberation in Thailand". She is the director of two feature films, Mundane History (2009) and By The Time It Gets Dark (2016), the latter of which won the Thailand National Film Association Award for Best Picture and Best Director, making her the first woman to be awarded, and was selected as the Thai entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards. She has directed over a dozen shorts and video installations and is the co-director of Krabi, 2562 (2019) with British artist Ben Rivers. In 2017, she co-founded Purin Pictures, a film fund that supports independent cinema in Southeast Asia, offering much needed assistance in a region that lacks adequate governmental support. In 2007, she founded the independent film production company, Electric Eel Films, which has been recognized for its contribution toward supporting works by emerging talents from Thailand and abroad.

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