Chananun Chotrungroj

Chananun Chotrungroj

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Chananun Chotrungroj

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Palm Trees and Power Lines
Director of Photography
A disconnected teenage girl named Lea enters a relationship with a man twice her age. Lea sees him as the solution to all her problems, but his intentions are not what they seem.
Birth/Rebirth
Director of Photography
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
Three Months
Director of Photography
Coming-of-age film about Caleb, a South Florida teen. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's exposed to HIV. While he waits three months for his results, he finds love in the most unlikely of places.
The Edge of Daybreak
Cinematography
Bangkok 2006, amid brewing political tension, a family, led by politician Parl, shares one final night together at the safe house before a coup d'état forces him into exile.
Materna
Camera Operator
A psychological portrait of four women, whose lives are bound together by an incident on the New York City subway.
Between Shadow and Soul
Cinematography
Mây, a fourteen year-old girl is being married as the third wife to a rich landowner in the late 19th century Northern Vietnam. A black & white version of The Third Wife with no dialogue and new music.
The Nearest Human Being
Cinematography
Devin's struggles between an office job he hates and a pitiful career as an actor get worse when his beautiful girlfriend Jasmine decides to stop hoping he could ever turn into serious 'relationship material'. She seizes the opportunity to try new experiences but soon her reckless single life induces Jasmine to question herself. Will she give Devin a second chance?
Transmissions of Unwanted Pasts
Director of Photography
A satellite technician’s enthusiasm towards her extraordinary discovery is not shared by her bureaucratic superiors in this pointed and patient socio-political critique.
Don't Come Back from the Moon
Director of Photography
The men of a small town on the edge of nowhere mysteriously disappear, one by one, leaving women and children behind to fend for themselves in a desolate and dreamlike world.
The Third Wife
Director of Photography
Though only 14 years old, May is selected to be the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Her new home seems idyllic, her husband favours her, and she quickly becomes pregnant with what she is certain will be the desired male progeny. But trouble is quietly brewing: she witnesses a forbidden tryst that will spark a chain reaction of misfortunes — and stir in May urges that until now had been dormant.
Pop Aye
Director of Photography
On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on a journey across Thailand in search of the farm where they grew up together.
Motel Mist
Director of Photography
Erotic fantasies can come to life in the rooms of Motel Mistress. But whether these will be pleasurable for those involved is another matter. A strange disappearance, revenge and aliens all turn up one typical afternoon in this love nest.
Collective: Unconscious
Director of Photography
A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?
Porn Without Sex
First Assistant Camera
Three not-quite-pornographic vignettes from 1991: Dirty Secrets, Motions to Satisfy, and Invasive Treatments.
Yosemite
Cinematography
It's the fall of 1985. The intertwining tales of three 5th grade friends, Chris, Joe and Ted, unfold in the suburban paradise of Palo Alto, as the threat of a mountain lion looms over the community.
Seide
Director of Photography
Young Seide lives in a secluded mountain village in the heart of Kyrgyzstan. She loves her freedom to ride her horse, the closest soul she has, and enjoys playing with the village boys. When she is faced with the prospect of an arranged marriage, her family decides to honor the tradition and kill Seide’s horse for the wedding celebration. Upset and feeling voiceless, Seide tries to understand her family’s decision but cannot let her horse be killed. Unfortunately, the horse, like herself, has nowhere to go.
Afronauts
"B" Camera Operator
16th July 1969: America prepares to launch Apollo 11. Thousands of kilometers away, a ragtag group of Zambian exiles is trying to beat America to the Moon.
Karaoke Girl
Director of Photography
Following a young escort girl in Bangkok through portraits of her daily life, introducing the nuances of a vocation borne out of a simple necessity: supporting a family in rural Thailand.
Ploy
Still Photographer
A husband and wife are locked inside a single hotel room with a stranger named Ploy. Subtle suspicions build up to jealousy as the young woman triggers devastating consequences for the couple.