Ngern Tid Lor, or TIDLOR, led by Piyasak Ukritnukun, Managing Director, in collaboration with Kanchit Sopchokchai, Film Director, and Puangsoi Aksornsawang, Writer, launched the 8-minute VDO “Promise” telling a story of dealing with hardships brought on by the economic recession.
Top row: CODA, Courtesy of Sundance Institute; Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), photo by Mass Distraction Media; Flee, courtesy of Sundance Institute. Bottom row: Hive, photo by Alexander Bloom; Writing With Fire, courtesy of Sundance Institute; Ma Belle, My Beauty, courtesy of Sundance Institute. Park City, UT After six days and 73 feature films, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards Ceremony took place tonight, hosted by actor and comedian Patton Oswalt, with jurors presenting 24 prizes for feature filmmaking and seven for Short Films. Honorees, named in total below, represent new achievements in global independent storytelling. Bold, intimate, and humanizing stories prevailed across categories, with Grand Jury Prizes awarded to
Posted on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 by Chris Evangelista
Today, the Golden Globe nominations were announced, and the results were pretty bad! So perhaps we should try to cleanse our palates with the 2021 Sundance Film Festival awards. This year’s Sundance was virtual, and while that experience can’t hold a candle to being on the ground in Park City, the festival organizers deserver lots of credit for putting the fest together in any capacity and running it smoothly. While I found a lot of the films I saw this year to be lacking, there were still plenty of noteworthy titles. Lots of attention was paid to
One for the Road Review: Old Friends Drink and Drive in Wong Kar Wai-Produced Thai Melodrama One for the Road Review: Old Friends Drink and Drive in Wong Kar Wai-Produced Thai Melodrama
A bartender and his dying best friend reunite in an emotionally manipulative road movie that spans two continents and several relationships.
Peter Debruge, provided by
FacebookTwitterEmail
Director: Baz Poonpiriya
With: Tor Thanapob, Ice Natara, Violette Wautier, Aokbab Chutimon, Ploi Horwang, Noon Siraphun, Thaneth Warakulnukroh, Rhatha Phongam. (Thai, English dialogue)
Running time: Running time: 137 MIN.
Courtesy of Sundance Institute
The overloaded Thai equivalent of one of those YA weepies where terminally ill teens scramble to fulfill their bucket lists before expiring at a young age, all-the-feels buddy movie “One for the Road” is determined to leave audiences both shaken and stirred. Your mileage may vary as director Baz Poonpiriya (“Bad Genius”) packs this concoction wit
Thai director
Nattawut Poonpiriya‘s impossibly stylish high school heist thriller
Bad Genius was one of the best hidden gems to emerge from the Southeast Asian region over the past few years, and seemed to signal a bright new filmmaker in the arena who could rival Edgar Wright in breakneck editing and crazy camera acrobatics. That thought occurred to me the first few minutes into Poonpiriya’s latest equally stylish film,
One for the Road, but gradually faded as the road trip dramedy took a few too many detours and soapy left turns.
A wistful road trip movie that follows a pair of old, estranged friends who reconnect after many years,