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Pen-Ek Ratanaruang was born on 8 March, 1962 in Bangkok, Thailand, is a Thai film director and screenwriter. Discover Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

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Occupation Film director · screenwriter
Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 8 March 1962
Birthday 8 March
Birthplace Bangkok, Thailand
Nationality Thailand

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1962

Pen-ek Ratanaruang (เป็นเอก รัตนเรือง; ; born 8 March 1962, Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai film director and screenwriter.

He is best known for his arthouse work, Last Life in the Universe, and is considered to be one of Thai cinema's leading "new wave" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

He goes by the nickname Tom and is sometimes credited as Tom Pannet.

1975

It was also submitted by Thailand to the 75th Academy Awards.

1977

Pen-ek studied from 1977-85 at the Pratt Institute in New York and worked as freelance illustrator and designer with Designframe.

1993

In 1993, he started work at the Film Factory in Bangkok, where he worked with Wisit Sasanatieng.

1997

At Film Factory, Pen-ek made several television commercials, for which he won numerous awards, including a bronze medal at the 1997 Cannes Lion Awards for a Clairol anti-dandruff shampoo spot entitled "Dance".

He made his debut feature film, Fun Bar Karaoke in 1997.

It's the story of a young woman named Pu whose father falls in love with a hostess girl who's the girlfriend of a mobster.

A hitman named Noi (Ray McDonald) is dispatched to kill the father, and Pu ends up falling in love with Noi.

Far Bar Karaoke was screened at many film festivals after its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.

Pen-ek's second film, Ruang Talok 69 (6ixtynin9), is another crime comedy.

In it, a young woman (Lalita Panyopas) finds an instant noodle box filled with money that has been mistakenly placed at her doorstep and she runs afoul of some mobsters.

1999

The film was Thailand's submission to the 73rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film in 1999.

It was also screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival and other festivals.

His third film, Monrak Transistor (Transistor Love Story), is a bittersweet Thai country music love story involving a young man named Pan (Supakorn Kitsuwon) who marries his sweetheart (Siriyakorn Pukkavesh), is drafted into the military and then goes absent without leave to pursue his dreams of being a singer.

2002

The film premiered at the Director's Fortnight event at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

2003

Pen-ek served as editor for director Nonzee Nimibutr's 2003 film, OK Baytong, and was the narrator on Wisit Sasanatiang's 2004 film, Citizen Dog.

It was selected for competition at the Rotterdam festival, won the best actor award for Asano at the Venice International Film Festival and was Thailand's submission to the 2003 Academy Awards.

Pen-ek worked again with Prabda, Doyle and Asano on Invisible Waves, about a Japanese chef who commits a murder in Macau and flees to Thailand.

The film also stars Hong Kong actor Eric Tsang and Korean actress Kang Hye-jung.

2004

In 2004, Pen-ek was among the artists receiving the inaugural Silpathorn Award by the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture of Thailand.

The award is given annually to contemporary artists.

For his fourth film, Last Life in the Universe, he teamed up with writer Prabda Yoon, cinematographer Christopher Doyle and Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano.

Asano portrays a Japanese man on the run from the yakuza in Thailand.

It also features Japanese director Takashi Miike in a small role as a yakuza.

2006

It was selected for competition at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival, where it had its world premiere.

Invisible Waves was also the opening film for the 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival, where it also was in competition.

Pen-ek was selected to take part in the Digital Short Films by Three Directors project at the 2006 Jeonju International Film Festival.

He directed a short called Twelve Twenty, about a young man (Ananda Everingham) who falls in love with a woman he sees on the other side of an airport terminal, and then fantasizes about her throughout a 12-hour, 20-minute airline flight.

Christopher Doyle provided cinematography and was also featured in the film as the pilot.

The other filmmakers taking part in the project were Singapore's Eric Khoo and Darezhan Omirbayev from Kazakhstan.

Also in 2006, Pen-ek directed a short documentary, Total Bangkok, about an amateur football league that plays matches on a concrete pitch underneath an elevated expressway in Bangkok.

The 21-minute film was sponsored by Nike.

Pen-ek is a lifelong football fan.

Pen-ek then returned to screenwriting with Ploy, which he submitted to the 2006 Pusan International Film Festival's Pusan Promotion Project in an effort to secure funding.

2007

The film was screened at the Director's Fortnight at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

Lalita Panyopas, who starred in Ruang Talok 69, returned to lead the cast, portraying a wife who grows jealous and angry after her husband befriends a teen-age girl.

The film, which also stars Ananda Everingham and Porntip Papanai, was censored in Thailand due to sex scenes.

Pen-ek created a special Thai print of the film for its theatrical run there.