Press Conference / Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul about his Cannes Film Festival entry...

For the ones who are not familiar with Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Apitchat is Internationally one of the best known directors of Thailand, maybe the best known of all. He has produced many movies in the past but because most of them are ones of the type that are commercially not viable in Thailand, they hardly get any funding. In the past, Apitchat has gotten most of the needed funding for his movies in other countries such as Germany or France for example. With Uncle Boonme, Apitchatpong has finally managed to go to Cannes this year. He is not the first Thai dorector that has achieved that. This honor goes to Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. At the press conference for Uncle Boonme, Apitchatpong Weerasethakul appeared together with actress Wallapa Mongkolprasert and producers Simon Field, Keith Griffiths, Charles de Meaux and Luis Miñarro. Below is an embed of the press conference / Q&A with Apitchatpong about Uncle Boonme:    (38584 KB) Listen on posterous See the full gallery on posterous Permalink | Leave a comment  » ATTENTION: This is a post from the BANGKOKRECORDER.COM webzine. If you are seeing this post anywhere outside of your RSS reader, it might have been reposted without our consent or be appearing on a scraper site. Please visit us at http://www.bangkokrecorder.com.

 

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