Reaping the rewards
After conquering the Thai box office, teen caper movie “Charlard Games Gong” (“Bad Genius”) is continuing to fly high, entertaining film fans overseas with the story of a group of Thai students who set out to beat the international exam system by manipulating time zones.
The first Thai film ever to open the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), it also picked up the Best Asian film award and won leading actress Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying the Screen International Rising Star Asia Award.
It then travelled to Montreal where it picked up Best Film, Best Asian Feature Film, Best Director and Best Innovative Feature Film at the Fantastic International Film Festival.
Recently it became the first Thai film to win the Fukuoka Audience Award from the Focus on Asia Fukuoka International Film Festival.
“Bad Genius” has also done well commercially becoming the all-time top grossing Thai film in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Vietnam. And now it’s heading to China where it will go on release in more than 7,000 theatres on October 13. China is one of the toughest markets for foreign film as the country gives only a small quota to foreign films and most of that quota goes to Hollywood blockbusters.
