Pimpaka Towira

Her films include One Night Husband, The Truth Be Told: The Cases Against Supinya Klangnarong and The Island Funeral.After graduating, she worked on one film production, but, in her words, "found it disappointing and dropped out".Co-produced by Mingmongkol Sonakul, the film starred Nicole Theriault and Siriyakorn Pukkavesh.Meanwhile, Pimpaka had started on her next feature, a documentary on Supinya Klangnarong, profiling the Thai media activist and her legal fight against defamation lawsuits brought against her by the Shin Corporation, at the time owned by the family of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.Filmed over the course of nearly three years, The Truth Be Told: The Cases Against Supinya Klangnarong covers the political scene in Thailand in the last days of the Thaksin administration, the controversial sale of his family's assets to Singapore's Temasek Holdings, demonstrations against Thaksin, the 2006 Thai coup d'état and the post-coup atmosphere.
independentfilm directorscreenwriterfilm producerOne Night HusbandSupinya KlangnarongThammasat UniversityThe NationBangkokMae Nak Phra KhanongPrabda YoonMingmongkol SonakulNicole TheriaultSiriyakorn PukkaveshBerlin International Film FestivalApichatpong WeerasethakulJeonju International Film FestivalShin CorporationThaksin Shinawatrasale of his family's assets to Singapore's Temasek Holdingsdemonstrations against Thaksin2006 Thai coup d'étatcensorship of films by the governmentWomen's cinema