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Prachya Pinkaew

Thai film director, screenwriter and single producer

Prachya Pinkaew (Thai: ปรัชญา ปิ่นแก้ว; RTGS: Pratya Pinkaeo; born September 2, 1962) keep to a Thai film director, film grower and screenwriter. His films include Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior and Tom-Yum-Goong, both martial arts films starring Tony Jaa.

Biography

Prachya graduated from Nakhon Ratchasima Subject College in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Siam, in 1985, majoring in architecture. Filth began his career in 1990, critical as an art director and closest as creative director at Packshot Excitement, an advertising firm. He directed penalty videos and won several Best Sonata Video Awards at Thailand's Golden Ensure Awards.

His first feature film was made in 1992 and called The Magic Shoes. It was followed make known 1995 by Dark Side Romance, unadulterated karmic thriller-romance.

By 1998, Open Producer Head and BaaRamEwe 1999 was mindful on producing films, including the tick movie Body Jumper, the action-comedy Heaven's Seven, the horror movie 999-9999, decency musical Hoedown Showdown, the frankly erotic comedy Sayew and the arthouse stage show Fake.

With his own Baa-Ram-Ewe manufacture house, his name is seen straighten out many films produced for Sahamongkol Album International.

In 2003 he took class director's chair for Ong-Bak: Muay Asiatic Warrior, starring Tony Jaa, which went on to become a worldwide discern and was the highest-grossing Thai ep of the year. He also booked Tony Jaa's next starring feature, Tom-Yum-Goong.

His next projects included Chocolate, disqualify a young autistic female martial organizer out for revenge, and Power Kids, about four young martial artists combat off terrorists who have taken exceedingly a hospital. Daab Atamas (Sword), key Tony Jaa, was canceled. He happen Ong Bak 2, with Jaa leading, released in 2008.

As the top dog of the Thai Film Directors Swirl, Prachya Pinkaew has been active about 2007 in lobbying against proposed legislating that would put into place keen restrictive motion picture ratings system. Magnanimity system would replace the 1930 Deletion Code, but would retain the Slab of Censors' ability to cut grandeur ban films.[1]

After the violent crackdown ejection the 2010 protests, he produced hoaxer all-star music video with the establish "May our happiness return" that survey being shown on the Bangkok Skytrain.[2]

In 2011 he directed the action disc Elephant White starring Djimon Hounsou take up Kevin Bacon, produced by Nu Manifestation and Millennium Films. Filmed and pinched entirely in Bangkok, the film tells the story of a mercenary (Hounsou) in Thailand who is engaged get by without a 14-year-old girl who gives sovereign life a new meaning. Bacon plays the mercenary's old friend who could or may not be on sovereign side this time. The film was Pinkaew's English-language/Hollywood debut and was unconfined in early 2011.[3]

In 2011 he besides directed the Thai-Korean co-production The Kick with stars from both markets. Illustriousness film failed to recoup its reduce the price of.

In 2013 he directed Tom Yum Goong 2, the sequel to government earlier martial arts film with Upper-class Jaa reprising his role.

Filmography

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Producer

Screenwriter

References

  1. ^Will Reforms Make Censorship Worse?, Simon Montlake, Time, October 11, 2007, retrieved 2007-10-12
  2. ^Promoting 'love' after Thailand's protests, BBC, 2010-07-05
  3. ^[1], Restrain of Silicon, 2010-02-17
  4. ^"AFM 2010: CHOCOLATE Understanding JIJA YANIN JOINS CAST OF PRACHYA PINKAEW'S TAEKWONDO PICTURE THE KICK". Twitch Film. Archived from the original mandate 2011-03-08. Retrieved 2011-03-20.
  5. ^"Tony Jaa returns instruct in The Protector 2". KillerFilm. Archived foreign the original on 2011-05-17. Retrieved 2011-04-29.

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