
Jarunun Phantachat
Acting
Biography
Jaa Jarunun Phantachat is an award-winning actor, playwright, director and producer and co-artistic director of B-Floor Theatre, a physical theatre group based in Bangkok. A graduate of Chiang Mai University's Faculty of Mass Communication, her physical theatre training includes modern dance, Laban Effort Qualities, Butoh and Viewpoints. She has performed in numerous B-Floor productions and toured internationally. In 2014, Jaa received the prestigious Silpathorn Award for outstanding merit in theatre from Thailand's Ministry of Contemporary Art and Culture and was an Asian Cultural Council Fellow. In 2015, she received the award for Best Direction from the Thai Section of the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC – Thailand) for “Test of Endurance.” The shows she produced in 2016 (“Fundamental”) and 2018 (“Something Missing”) won Best Ensemble Performance, Best Art Direction, and Best Movement Based Performance from IATC – Thailand. In 2016 she received the award for Best Actress in the film "Ferris Wheel" from the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia international competition and Thai Short Film & Video Festival. Beyond her work with B-Floor, Jarunun is a freelance writer, a voice-over director for the online game “Blizzard's Hearthstone” Thailand, and is a co-founder of Collective Thai Scripts, a group that curates the translation and publication of contemporary Thai scripts.
Known For

When an apocalyptic virus that turns people into zombies ravages a city, a group of students take shelter in a school and fight to survive.
Zomvivor

A Thai youth soccer team and their assistant coach are trapped within Tham Luang Cave, prompting a global rescue effort.
Thai Cave Rescue

Sun, an autistic man obsessed with finding a means of ending his life but who never succeeds in carrying it out, has to put his plans of suicide on hold once again when Uncle Mok, the owner of a coffee shop and little library called Tiny Butterfly, dies suddenly in the street right before his eyes. He isn't alone, though. Yaimai, a financial planner who likes one-night stands, and Tor, a sixteen-year-old runaway, also happened to bear witness. Together, the three strangers give their account to the police and arrange the kinless man's funeral.
The Broken Us

After a successful experimental surgery restores her eyesight, a young woman sees her marriage spiral in a disturbing direction.
All I See Is You

When her good tenants go bad, a landlord finds herself terrorized by a cult that seemingly has her husband enthralled — and her daughter in its sights.
Home for Rent

When a dedicated rescue worker inadvertently gets caught up in the kidnapping plot of a mogul's tween daughter, he must save her from the clutches of rival gangs hunting them down with unpredictable dangers around every corner.
Bangkok Breaking: Heaven and Hell

When a world champion of sport stacking is dumped by his long-time girlfriend, he has to learn basic adulting skills in order to live alone and take care of himself.
Fast & Feel Love

Yajai, nicknamed Yajai Hat Thewada (Hands of a Goddess), is a masseuse sought-after by many spa resorts. However, she decides to flee from it all and live a private life. To hide from the fame, she gets a flat where she's suspected of making a dishonest living and where she hides from Grandma Noi, her only relative who's made it her mission to pair Yajai up with Kriangkrai. It's her hope that there will be someone to inherit her Hat Thewada massage technique. Amidst all the suspicion and chaos, there's only one place where she can rest her mind: the salon of Chatchai, a friend from high school. However, her presence is met with resistance from Chatchai's daughter Chomphu.
Do You Know P'Yajai?

Laos. In a land ravaged by war and exploitation, a boy whose family believe he is cursed must redeem himself by taking part in a dangerous rocket competition.
The Rocket

Sorn, an ethnic Shan sex worker, tries to build a future in Chiang Mai, Thailand, as a refugee far from home, but he is drawn into a complex relationship with one client, an investigator probing a political activist.
Doi Boy

Visiting the hotel where his parents met during the Vietnam War, an engineer finds its twisting halls alive with restless memories of the past.
Morrison

Soon after a mysterious-ritual ceremony has been performed in a house, there are several chilling and inexplicable events happening which allegedly relate to haunting-spirit possession influencing house members into violence.
Reside

A teenage girl spends her vacation in Asia together with her mom and dad. There she meets another guy from France, who uses her, and she is caught by the drug police, arrested and sentenced to jail. Now her parents need to do something to release their innocent girl and punish the real criminal. Conditions in prison are very bad, the authorities are corrupted and are only interested in their money.
Ma fille est innocente

Aoey seeks the Pak Nam Po River - believed to reach heaven - in order to send her mother, who recently passed away, to the afterworld.
Nakorn-Sawan

The story of “Fah”, a girl who was born among religious differences between her parents: her father is a Muslim, her mother is a Christian. The suffering and sentimental feelings in her age of 21 make her life insecure. She started to question about the relationship between herself and her parents whether they are really a family or just love-hate-relationship strangers.
Marriage and Burden

A housekeeper received a film made by her daughter. It's a film that combines found footages of Thailand during the Cold War with the present days images of Bangkok. Through these images she tells a story of the house owner and her own story of coming to the capital.
Here We Are

On the journey to depict "borders," Because Watching Pacifies captures two KMT military dependents' villages established for surveillance purposes following the Chinese Civil War. In the mountainous region traversed by Taiwan's Central Cross-Island Highway and the highlands that border Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos, the villages were established in conflict zones along ethnic frontiers.