Paween Purijitpanya
Directing
Biography
Paween Purijitpanya (1978, Thailand) has been fascinated by film and visual effects from a young age. He studied film and photography at the Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. He has made numerous music videos for well-known Thai bands; some received awards. Purijitpanya is present at IFFR 2009 with Body and an episode in 4BIA.
Known For
A mysterious, clever girl named Nanno transfers to different schools, exposing the lies and misdeeds of the students and faculty at every turn.
Girl from Nowhere
A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.
The Medium
The story revolves around an extended Thai Chinese family whose members' seemingly happy relationships devolve into conflict following murder of the eldest son and head of the family business.
In Family We Trust
This series reimagines Thailand in a dystopian future where technology scrapes at the surface of old customs, exposing rips in the fabric of culture.
Tomorrow and I
An anthology of five macabre short stories about hungry ghosts, comatose brain dead, a group of bright-eyed actors, an unscrupulous car salesman, and careless backpack tourists.
Phobia 2
Four directors create short films based on unique fears involving a lonely woman, a princess's corpse, a haunted camping trip and a cursed manuscript.
4bia
After witnessing a haunting in their hospital, two doctors become dangerously obsessed with obtaining scientific proof that ghosts exist.
Ghost Lab
When Ake desperately needs money to pay for his gravely ill father's medical treatment, he takes his father's sacred amulet to be appraised by the renowned expert Seng Paradise.
The Stone
A man tries to prove that his nightmares about a girl who screams for help and is then murdered are real, and contain a message reaching out to her murderer.
Body
Three modern love stories focus on how digital privacy, fleeting fame and the power of personal reinvention can change one's romantic destiny.
Seven Something
Vin, a desperate delivery rider trying to fund his dying mother's medical treatment. His life takes a dangerous turn when an old friend brings him into an underground arena, where fighters bear "God Skin" tattoos.
God Skin
When Sin wakes up in a strange place and found that his girlfriend had mysteriously disappeared So he had to find a girlfriend. in the midst of unexpected events Will he survive to save his girlfriend!?
The Final Escape
The journey of the 36 film to the audience at the Busan Film Festival