Pimpaka Towira
Pimpaka TOWIRA (1967, Thailand) was educated in Film at the Thammasat University in Bangkok. Her feature film debut One Night Husband (2003) brought her international fame, making her one of the first female Thai filmmakers to be noticed by international critics and viewers. She has been invited as a jury member for many film festivals and won the Silpathorn Award in 2009, granted by the Ministry of Culture in Thailand. Her new film The Island Funeral (2015) also received an award in the Asian Future category at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
Filmography
Under Taboo (1992, short), Mae nak (1997, short), One Night Husband (2003), Sud thang rak/Tune In (2005, short), The Truth Be Told (2007, doc), My Father (2010, short), Sudsanan/Terribly Happy (2010, short), Black Air (2008, instal), Mae/The Mother (2012, short), Malaria and Mosquitos (2013, short), Mahut samut lae susaan/The Island Funeral (2015)
Pimpaka Towira op IFFR
Black Air
Thailand
IFFR 2008
The Planet
8'
Thailand
IFFR 2008
The Rocket
19'
Thailand
IFFR 2008
The Truth Be Told: The Cases Against Supinya Klangnarong
105'
Thailand
IFFR 2008
A Voyage of Foreteller
9'
Thailand
IFFR 2008
Agrarian Utopia
122'
Thailand
IFFR 2009
Unreal Forest
70'
Thailand
IFFR 2010
My Father
22'
Thailand
IFFR 2011
The Mother
15'
Thailand
IFFR 2013
Malaria and Mosquitoes
24'
Thailand
IFFR 2014
The Songs of Rice
75'
Thailand
IFFR 2014
The Island Funeral
105'
Thailand
IFFR 2016