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Electronic Press Kit N I G H T F a L L a Film by Anocha Suwichakornpong Tulapop Saenjaroe Electronic Press Kit n i g h t f a l l a film by anocha suwichakornpong tulapop saenjaroen Original Title: Nightfall International Title: Nightfall Year: 2016 Country of Production: Thailand/Singapore Running time: 15’ 31” Language: English with English subtitles Synopsis The chronicles of a day in the life of a nameless woman as she wanders around Singapore. Part documentary part video essay, ‘Nightfall’ is a fictionalised account of my time spent during a residency researching Thai politics in a foreign land. Festivals - (World Premiere) 62. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen - 20th Thai Short Film and Video Festival (won BACC Award) - 33rd Kasseler DokFest —This work has been supported by the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, a national research centre of the Nanyang Technological University— Filmmaker’s Biography Anocha Suwichakornpong (b.1976) graduated from an MFA film program at Columbia University, New York, where she was a recipient of a Hollywood Foreign Press Association Fellowship. That same year, Anocha attended the Berlinale Talent Campus. Her feature-length script, “The White Room”, was among the fifteen scripts chosen to participate in their Script Clinic. Anocha’s thesis, “Graceland” became the first Thai short film to be included in the Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival (Cinéfondation). Anocha’s first feature "Mundane History" (Jao Nok Krajok) received the Hubert Bals Fund from International Film Festival Rotterdam as well as the post-production support from Asian Cinema Fund (ACF), Pusan International Film Festival. The film had been screened at film festivals worldwide and won numerous awards including Rotterdam (Tiger Award Winner), Transilvania (Grand Prix), New Horizons (Grand Prix) and Mumbai (Best Director). Mundane History was released in France in 2013. Anocha’s short film ”The Passenger” which forms part of Olafur Eliasson’s “Little Sun” film project, was exhibited at Tate Modern, London, in 2012. Anocha co-founded Electric Eel Films, a production house based in Bangkok. She has produced numerous short films and features, including Wichanon Somumjarn’s first feature, “In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire”, Lee Chatametikool’s first feature, “Concrete Clouds”, and Josh Kim’s “How to Win at Checkers (Every Time)”. In 2014, she was an artist-in-residence at Centre of Contemporary Art (CCA) in Singapore. Anocha had just completed her second feature, “By the Time It Gets Dark”, supported by Ministry of Culture (Thailand), Doha Film Institute, and the Hubert Bals Fund. The film premiered in Locarno International Film Festival (International Competition), and will screen in the Wavelengths program at Toronto International Film Festival in September 2016. Selected Filmography: By the Time It Gets Dark (2016), Pohn talay (2012), Breakfast Lunch Dinner (2010), Mundane History (2009) Jai (2007), Graceland (2006) Tulapop Saenjaroen (b.1986) is an artist/filmmaker whose works encompass performance, video/film, and public projects. Tulapop holds an MFA from the Slade School of Art, University College London, and MA in Aesthetics and Politics program at the California Institute of Arts. He has participated in exhibitions and screenings internationally including ‘Human Frames’ Kunst im tunnel, Germany (2011), 12th Seoul International New Media Festival, South Korea (2012), Open City Docs Fest, UK (2012), Numthong Gallery (2013), ‘Concept, Context, Contestation’, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (2013), Moscow International Biennale for Young Art(2014), XXX Gallery Hong Kong (2014), ‘Unorthodox Hosts’, ICA, UK(2014), 62. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2016). Selected Filmography: People on Sunday (2013), Klai (2011), Rorlom(2010), The Return (2008) Production Cinematography Electric Eel Films Lei Yuan Bin Producer Second Unit Camera Li Lin Wee Wichanon Somumjarn Associate Producers Camera assistant Vera Mey Shyan Tan Shona Findlay Colorist Cast Ming Kai Leung Vel Ng Anocha Suwichakornpong Sound Designer/ Mixer Sorayos Prapapan Voice Sound Recordist Kantitat Israngkura Na Dominic Chang Ayudhya ADR Recordist Directors Naween Noppakun Anocha Suwichakornpong Tulapop Saenjaroen Format DCP, color/ Stereo Production Assistants Judith Tong International Sales Gary Khoo Young Lim Electric Eel Films Contact: Electric Eel Films tel: +66 89 7289411, +66 81 6369888 email: [email protected] .
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