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The Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) has announced six Thai works from rising filmmakers for this year’s Project Spotlight in the Network of Asian Fantastic Films (Naff).

PiFan’s Project Spotlight takes a different Asian country each year to focus on selected genre film projects.

The seventh edition of Naff lauds Thailand as recently “running strong with its genre films of unique subject matters and techniques” and the filmmakers for the six selected projects as up-and-coming on the international stage.

Off his recent film Hong Hun featuring Ananda Everingham, Kulp Kaljareuk will bring mystery thriller Fallen Thailand as his next feature, with Nattaporn Kaljareuk producing. With shades of political commentary, the story is set in 2035 and features a Thai boxer battling zombies in a quarantined hospital to save his wife, a nurse, and help a lost child find his mother.

Director Nuttorn Kungwanklai, whose horror omnibus 9-9-81 screened at last year’s Udine Far East...

With just a month to go until the start of the 18th Pucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan), its industry arm, the Network of Asian Fantastic Films (Naff), has revealed the projects that will make up its Thailand country spotlight for the 7th It Project. Selected for its growing pool of diverse genre films, Thailand will present six projects at Naff this year.Kulp Kaljareuk, director of Hong Hun, will participate with Fallen Thailand while 9-9-81 (2012) helmer Nuttorn Kungwanklai will be present with Jam-nien: The 300-Years Ghost. Noted VFX director Solarsin Ngoenwichit will take part with his debut project Panang - The Monster Within and veteran producer Pakinee Chaisana will present his directorial project Love Me Love Me Not. Short filmmaker Lertsiri Boomee will attend...

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