Thunska Pansittivorakul was born in Bangkok. He graduated from the
Department of Art Education, Faculty of Education of Chulalongkorn University. He
used to be a columnist of many magazines including Thai: Film Quarterly. His short films, documentaries and feature films were screened in over 100
international film festivals, including Berlin International Film Festival,
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Hong Kong International Film Festival,
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, and many more.
He won the Grand Prize award at The 4th Taiwan International Documentary
Festival 2004 for his documentary feature Happy
Berry. His Heartbreak Pavilion
project won the Top Award from Pussan Promotion Plan at The 10th Pusan
International Film Festival 2005. In 2007 during Thaksin Shinawatra’s regime,
he received the Silpathorn Award from The Ministry of Culture's Office of
Contemporary Arts, which is awarded to one outstanding artist each year. The
past honorees in the field of film include Pen-Ek Ratanaruan, Apitchapong
Weerasethakul, Wisit Sasanatieng. Thunska is a special instructor at Film
Department of Bangkok University.
His political movie, The Terrorists is dedicated to the deceased and the wounded in
the crackdowns on protesters in Thailand from April 10th – May 19th 2010, the
number of victims of which is believed to exceed 2,000 people as well as to
those redshirts who were assassinated after the incident.
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