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Thirteen feature films, seven documentaries, three shorts, seven animations, three games and one art video project have been chosen by the Culture Ministry to receive a total of Bt15 million under the 2017 Film and Video Funding project, it was announced last week.
The project granted the most funding at B2 million is “Klin Dan Klai” (“The Edge of Daybreak”), the first feature by visual artist and renowned short filmmaker Taiki Sakpisit, which is being produced by Soros Sukhum.
The film starts in the last moment of life of a terminally ill veteran, then travels back through the years to the arrival of his Chinese ancestor 200 years earlier and recounting the history of the country along the way.
Nawapol Tamrongratanarit’s second feature “Die Tomorrow” earned Bt1.5 million and is part of the same six-episode anthology as “Daybreak”, which chronicle the lives of people as they face death.
Best director and best film winner Anocha Suwichakornpong earned Bt1.2 million for her new project “Nai Naataang” (“White Window”) about a Japanese guy growing up in Thailand who lives under the shadow of his father, a world-famous writer.
Other well-known directors to receive under B1 million in grant funding include Anucha Boonyawatana, Boonsong Nakphoo, Nonzee Nimibutr and Pen-ek Ratnaruang, the latter pitching the “3rd Pun Nam Pen Ngern” movie script contest under the Kiat-Charoen Iampungporn Foundation – the non-profit foundation in memory of the two brothers who were behind the success the Five Star Productions Company. Pen-ek started his directing career with the company. The project received Bt200,000 towards the campaign. Wisit Sasanatieng received Bt300,000 for his animation project “Ponlamuang Maew” (“Catopia”).
