Pimpaka Towira

Her debut feature, ONE NIGHT HUSBAND, an ambitious attempt to combine an experimental style with an accessible narrative was premiered in the International Forum of New Cinema at the Berlin International Film Festival 2003. Since then, it has been traveling around in festival circuits.

Working as an independent filmmaker since the last decade, she has not been only writing, but also directing and producing all her films. And ONE NIGHT HUSBAND is her success to achieve a collaborative project with a major film studio GMM Pictures. In 2007, she has found “Extra Virgin”, where it aims to puts a focus on nurturing and giving voices to talents, both emerging and veteran alike.

Apart from film-making, she has worked as a producer, a film writer, a film artist and a film lecturer. In 2006, she was invited as the video artist collaboration with the all-star cast of Thai artists performing Ramakien: A Rock Opera, at the Lincoln Center Performing Arts in New York. And in 2008, she and 4 Thai artists had created “Black Air”, the interactive and sound installation for International Film Festival Rotterdam.

In addition, she was the program director for the Bangkok Film Festival, 2001, 2008 and 2009. Moreover, she was invited as a jury member for many film festivals such as Oberhausen International Short Film Festival in 2001, Yamagata Documentary Film Festival in 2005 and Hong Kong Film Festival in 2010.

Pimpaka won the Silapathorn Award (an honour for Thai contemporary artists), in 2009, presented by the Ministry of Culture in Thailand.