Anocha Suwichakornpong’s work as a filmmaker is informed by the sociopolitical history of her native Thailand. Her thesis film, Graceland, became the first Thai short film to be officially selected by the Cannes Film Festival; Mundane History, her first feature, won the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. By the Time It Gets Dark was selected as Thailand’s entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2018 Academy Awards. Anocha is also the founder of Electric Eel Films, a production house based in Bangkok, and the co-founder, with Visra Vichit-Vadakan and Aditya Assarat, of Purin Pictures, an initiative to support Southeast Asian cinema.
