Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit

Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit (b. 1984, Thailand) holds a master’s degree in Chinese from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He attended the Berlinale Talent Campus but is otherwise a self-taught filmmaker who made a name for himself with his short films (roughly 20 in all, including Penguin, 2007; Français, 2009; Cherie Is Korean-Thai, 2010). He works as a film critic and is a scriptwriter for GTH, Thailand’s largest studio, where he penned the box office smash Bangkok Traffic Love Story (2009, dir. Adisorn Tresirikasem). He is a cofounder of the Thai film-activist group Third Class Citizen. The poetic picture 36 is his feature film debut.

48. MFF Karlovy Vary