Filmmakers had called for a boycott over the rule change.
The organisers behind Thailand’s Suphannahong National Film Awards have dropped a rule that would effectively disqualify independent features from nomination following a major backlash.
A recent rule change by the National Federation of Motion Pictures and Contents Associations (Mpc) stated that theatrical releases in five regions of Thailand and a minimum of 50,000 cinema admissions were required for a film to be considered for nomination. These regions include Bangkok, Chiangmai (the north), Chonburi (the east), Nakhon Ratchasima (the northeast) and Nakhon Si Thammarat (the south).
It meant that, earlier this week,...
The organisers behind Thailand’s Suphannahong National Film Awards have dropped a rule that would effectively disqualify independent features from nomination following a major backlash.
A recent rule change by the National Federation of Motion Pictures and Contents Associations (Mpc) stated that theatrical releases in five regions of Thailand and a minimum of 50,000 cinema admissions were required for a film to be considered for nomination. These regions include Bangkok, Chiangmai (the north), Chonburi (the east), Nakhon Ratchasima (the northeast) and Nakhon Si Thammarat (the south).
It meant that, earlier this week,...
- 3/31/2023
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Nontawat Numbenchapol's film about border row and 2011 red-shirt protests deemed 'threat to national security'
A Thai documentary that examines recent political protests and a border spat with Cambodia has been banned by the country's government as "a threat to national security and international relations".
Nontawat Numbenchapol's documentary Boundary zeroes in on a soldier caught up in the 2011 "red shirt" protests that paralysed Bangkok and led to the deaths of almost 100 people, before following him to his hometown on the Thai-Cambodian border. The two countries have long been engaged in a row over the 1,000-year-old Hindu Preah Vihear temple in the Dângrêk mountains region, occasionally entering into armed conflict. A series of skirmishes in April 2011 left 18 people dead and thousands of villagers displaced. The area is currently the subject of a Un International Court of Justice probe to decide its future.
Numbenchapol's decision to flag up two of the most contentious...
A Thai documentary that examines recent political protests and a border spat with Cambodia has been banned by the country's government as "a threat to national security and international relations".
Nontawat Numbenchapol's documentary Boundary zeroes in on a soldier caught up in the 2011 "red shirt" protests that paralysed Bangkok and led to the deaths of almost 100 people, before following him to his hometown on the Thai-Cambodian border. The two countries have long been engaged in a row over the 1,000-year-old Hindu Preah Vihear temple in the Dângrêk mountains region, occasionally entering into armed conflict. A series of skirmishes in April 2011 left 18 people dead and thousands of villagers displaced. The area is currently the subject of a Un International Court of Justice probe to decide its future.
Numbenchapol's decision to flag up two of the most contentious...
- 4/24/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
With the Oscars fresh in mind, Thailand took its own annual turn at awards night late Friday in Bangkok. The 22nd edition of Subhanahongsa Awards (known alternatively in English as the Thailand National Film Association Awards, the Golden Swans or the Thai Oscars), rolled out the red carpet for the domestic Thai industry at the historic National Theater beside Bangkok’s Chao Phraya River. Going into the evening, transgender writer-director Tanwarin Sukkhapisit's sympathetic story of transgender romance, It Gets Better, was the clear front runner, having received nominations in nine out of 16 categories. Photos: Backstage at the Oscars:
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- 3/1/2013
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Movies about transgender identity top Madrid lesbian, gay, and transsexual film festival Movies about gender — or rather, transgender — identity were the top winners at the 2012 edition of LesGaiCineMad, Madrid’s lesbian, gay, and transsexual film festival which ran Nov. 1-11. Xavier Dolan’s Canadian drama Laurence Anyways, a portrait of the relationship between a woman in a man’s body (Melvil Poupaud) and his/her partner (Suzanne Clément), was the LesGaiCineMad jury’s top narrative film. Tanwarin Sukkhapisit’s Thai comedy-drama It Gets Better, featuring three stories about [...]...
- 11/19/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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