BANGKOK -- During a decade of exposing hidden Thai stories and lives in a spate of observational documentaries, filmmaker Nontawat Numbenchapol has always been keenly aware of his responsibility toward his human subjects. His latest body of work, however, finds him going to new lengths to honor that responsibility -- to ensure the anonymity of the migrant workers at its center, he has dropped the role of documentarian altogether.
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Thai filmmaker switches to fiction to reveal migrant realities
Nontawat Numbenchapol's debut feature 'Doi Boy' explores illegal border crossings
Thai filmmaker Nontawat Numbenchapol: After making his name with a series of observational documentaries, he has branched out into narrative features with dark social realist film “Doi Boy.” (All photos courtesy of Nontawat Numbenchapol)
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