Anocha Suwichakornpong

Anocha Suwichakornpong was born in Thailand 1976 She spent the 1990s living in England where she attended universities and graduated with bachelors and masters degrees In 2006 she graduated from the MFA film program at Columbia University where she was a recipient of Hollywood Foreign Press Association Fellowship She attended the Talent Campus of the Berlin Film Festival in 2006 where her featurelength script The White Room was among the 15 projects chosen to participate in the Script Clinic Her thesis film Graceland was selected for the 59th Cannes Film Festivals Cinefondation program It was the first Thai short film selected for the Cannes Film Festival It was also featured at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and many other festivals