2012 Script Development Fund
LIST BareCategory | Asian Project |
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Project | Bare |
Director | Ekachai UEKRONGTHAM |
Country | Thailand, Singapore |
Director's Profile | Thai-born Ekachai UEKRONGTHAM is an award-winning film and theatre director whose film credits include Beautiful Boxer (Berlinale), Pleasure Factory (Cannes, Busan), The Coffin (Rotterdam). Also a writer, he′s written most of his screenplays. His stage plays and musicals have played in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, China and America. These include Chang & Eng - The Musical, Singapore′s longest running homegrown musical and the first English-language musical to be staged in China; and Boxing Boys, the world’s first non-verbal Thai kickboxing stage performance. Ekachai is currently completing his feature-length documentary entitled Accidental Muay Thai Boys. A recipient of the Culture Award from the Japanese Chamber of Commerce & Industry in Singapore, Ekachai was also knighted and conferred with the Italian′s government′s "Cavaliere del l′Ordine della stella della Solidarieta′ Italiana". |