Birthday

1981-05-04

Place of Birth

Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

Biography

Anucha Boonyawatana (Thai: อนุชา บุญยวรรธนะ) is a Thai independent filmmaker. Her thesis film, Down the River, won the Young Thai Artist Award and has been shown at several film festivals. Her first feature film, The Blue Hour, premiered at Berlinale Panorama in 2015. In 2017, she won the Best Director award at the Singapore International Film Festival for her second feature film Malila: The Farewell Flower.