Yongyoot Thongkongtoon
Nacimiento : 1967-02-18, Thailand
Historia
Yongyoot Thongkongtoon is a Thai film director, producer, and screenwriter. He made his debut in 2000 with the sports comedy The Iron Ladies. He graduated from Chulalongkorn University, with a Bachelor's degree in Communication Arts (Broadcasting), in Bangkok. His debut feature in 2000 was The Iron Ladies, a fact-based sports comedy about a volleyball team of gay and transgender men. The film won several awards in Thailand and at film festivals, including the Thailand National Film Association Awards and a special mention Teddy Award at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival. Yongyoot also directed the sequel, The Iron Ladies 2, in 2003.
In 2004, he directed Maid a spy spoof in which maids are recruited for a top-secret government intelligence agency. It was his first release under the new studio GTH, formed by the merger of GMM Grammy's GMM Pictures, producer Visute Poolvoralaks' Tai Entertainment and producer-director Jira Maligool's Hub Ho Hin production company.
This was followed by the 2006 romantic comedy-drama Metrosexual, about a group of women trying to figure out if the fiance of one of their friends is a closeted gay.
He currently works at three film and media companies: as Senior Creative Producer at Sanookdee Thaweesuk; co-founder, Senior Director of Marketing Communications and Senior Director of International Business Department at GDH 559; and co-founder of Hub Ho Hin Bangkok.
Thanks
Boss, el escurridizo dueño de un bar que vive en Nueva York, se reúne con su mejor amigo, Aood, para un viaje por carretera en Tailandia después de que a Aood le diagnosticaron un cáncer terminal.
Himself
The journey of the 36 film to the audience at the Busan Film Festival
Director
Four songs from His Majesty Bhumibol Adulyadej's (also known as King Rama IX) royal songbook have now inspired four leading Thai directors to interpret their spirit and meaning into four short films.
Producer
Waewtaa, a village girl from the village of Nok Krajib. who has both talent and strong ambition to become a Mo Lam singer Just… her dream pushes against the demands of her mother because she is rich who hates her career as a singer!!
Executive Producer
Three modern love stories focus on how digital privacy, fleeting fame and the power of personal reinvention can change one's romantic destiny.
Self
Three modern love stories focus on how digital privacy, fleeting fame and the power of personal reinvention can change one's romantic destiny.
Line Producer
Los sucesos narrados en el film, están basados en una famosa historia real sobre una urbanización cerrada y abandonada en Chiang Mai, que se convirtió en un páramo desierto debido a una serie de muertes y terribles sucesos paranormales. Allí llegara engañada la familia del Sr. Thee, un tipo corriente que lleva tiempo viviendo con un sueldo de oficinista, que no le ha permitido nunca lograr la casa de ensueño para vivir con su familia. Un día, tiene la oportunidad de ascender como jefe adjunto de Marketing en Chiang Mai, un lugar donde los salarios son mas altos y las viviendas mas asequibles. Thee, no dudara en aceptar el trabajo y comprarse una casa en una urbanización del lugar, para poder cumplir finalmente su sueno junto a su familia. Lo que no esperaba es que su sueno se convertiría en una pesadilla
Producer
Película de terror que recupera el estilo de "Phobia", narrando diferentes historias independientes entre ellas de 25 minutos de duración cada una:
Assistant Director
Película de terror que recupera el estilo de "Phobia", narrando diferentes historias independientes entre ellas de 25 minutos de duración cada una:
Producer
When friendship deepens into what veterinarian Keng hopes could become love, he learns that beautiful Fai still harbors feelings for her ex-husband who also happens to be Keng's best friend.
Director
When friendship deepens into what veterinarian Keng hopes could become love, he learns that beautiful Fai still harbors feelings for her ex-husband who also happens to be Keng's best friend.
Producer
¿Cuáles son las escenas de terror que más te asustan? ¿Cuándo los fantasmas se aparecen de repente? ¿Cuándo el personaje principal no ve que el fantasma está detrás de él? ¿Cuándo al final, te enteras que el personaje principal siempre fué un fantasma? Pero nada se compara con lo que sientes al llegar a casa solo y de repente sientes que eso ya lo habías vivido y estás recontruyendo la misma escena que acabas de ver en esa película de terror. (FILMAFFINITY)
Producer
A young man born with an extra arm longs to find love, so he journeys to a metropolitan hospital where he hopes to have his extra appendage amputated.
Producer
BIA es una película de horror compuesta de 4 historias dirigidas por los 4 directores mas talentosos de Tailandia.
>> “Loneliness” (Dir. Yongyoot Thongkongtoon) acerca de una chica solitaria que comienza a intercambiar mensajes de texto con un desconocido y pronto descubrirá algo extraño de el, por quien se siente atraída.
>> “The Deadly Charm” (Dir. Phavee Purijidpanya) es una historia de magia negra y de venganza de un chico de la escuela que había sido amenazado y maltratado, por un grupo de compañeros.
>> “The Middle Man” (Dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun) un grupo de amigos se encuentra con su peor camping después de sufrir un accidente en el bote donde viajaban.
>> “The Last Fright” (Dir. Parkpoom Wongpoom) lleva el horror a las alturas con un thriller que involucra a una azafata a volar sola en una cabina, con un cadáver.
Screenplay
BIA es una película de horror compuesta de 4 historias dirigidas por los 4 directores mas talentosos de Tailandia.
>> “Loneliness” (Dir. Yongyoot Thongkongtoon) acerca de una chica solitaria que comienza a intercambiar mensajes de texto con un desconocido y pronto descubrirá algo extraño de el, por quien se siente atraída.
>> “The Deadly Charm” (Dir. Phavee Purijidpanya) es una historia de magia negra y de venganza de un chico de la escuela que había sido amenazado y maltratado, por un grupo de compañeros.
>> “The Middle Man” (Dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun) un grupo de amigos se encuentra con su peor camping después de sufrir un accidente en el bote donde viajaban.
>> “The Last Fright” (Dir. Parkpoom Wongpoom) lleva el horror a las alturas con un thriller que involucra a una azafata a volar sola en una cabina, con un cadáver.
Director
BIA es una película de horror compuesta de 4 historias dirigidas por los 4 directores mas talentosos de Tailandia.
>> “Loneliness” (Dir. Yongyoot Thongkongtoon) acerca de una chica solitaria que comienza a intercambiar mensajes de texto con un desconocido y pronto descubrirá algo extraño de el, por quien se siente atraída.
>> “The Deadly Charm” (Dir. Phavee Purijidpanya) es una historia de magia negra y de venganza de un chico de la escuela que había sido amenazado y maltratado, por un grupo de compañeros.
>> “The Middle Man” (Dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun) un grupo de amigos se encuentra con su peor camping después de sufrir un accidente en el bote donde viajaban.
>> “The Last Fright” (Dir. Parkpoom Wongpoom) lleva el horror a las alturas con un thriller que involucra a una azafata a volar sola en una cabina, con un cadáver.
Producer
Chon, un estudiante de cuarto de medicina, empieza a visitar a un psicoterapeuta cuando tiene pesadillas con una mujer que vio solo una vez en un restaurante. En sus sueños, la mujer es asesinada por un hombre que descuartiza su cuerpo y se deshace de los pedazos echándolos por el inodoro.
Producer
An apprentice private detective is hired to gather evidence of a wealthy man's infidelity but falls in love with his target's adorable girlfriend.
Producer
When his son and heir is injured by rivals, a mob kingpin finds his son's long-lost twin, whose personality defies gangster clichés and expectations.
Producer
Pim regresa a la vieja casa en la que nació, donde experimenta unos dolorosos recuerdos y siente que algo le ocurre a su mano derecha. Pronto, descubrirá que tuvo una hermana gemela siamesa... Segunda película de los creadores de Shutter, una de las películas de terror asiático más aclamadas de los últimos años y cuyo remake americano se estrenó en España a principios de abril de 2008. (FILMAFFINITY)
Producer
Final Score follows Thai students at the age of 17 handling the entrance examination, the biggest exams to access to universities. See how the students get through many obstacles - intensive and extra courses, country's unstable circumstance, the changes in society, and the brand new admission system to screen qualified students. No one knows how the result would be. Success or failure? They're the person who destine their own result.
Gruel Restaurant Owner
In 1970, a string band called "The Possible" was really popular and made a fever among young people. One day, the band received a microphone as the present from a mysterious fan. Miraculously, the microphone was a time-machine that accidentally took them to the future, in 2007, where the modern music rules and they're just an out-of-date item. The only way to bring them back to their glorious time is performing a concert to energize the microphone, the time-machine. But, before the concert could be set, there're still some problems in the new world that they have to deal with.
Producer
In 1970, a string band called "The Possible" was really popular and made a fever among young people. One day, the band received a microphone as the present from a mysterious fan. Miraculously, the microphone was a time-machine that accidentally took them to the future, in 2007, where the modern music rules and they're just an out-of-date item. The only way to bring them back to their glorious time is performing a concert to energize the microphone, the time-machine. But, before the concert could be set, there're still some problems in the new world that they have to deal with.
Producer
Denied the coaching job he really wanted, a star footballer accepts his wealthy aunt's offer to assemble a ragtag team in a neighboring country.
Costumer
The story takes place at the College of Music, Mahidol University over one year and covers the three seasons that Bangkok typically experiences - summer, winter and monsoon.
Producer
The story takes place at the College of Music, Mahidol University over one year and covers the three seasons that Bangkok typically experiences - summer, winter and monsoon.
Producer
A mischievous ghost boy is wandering around the town, trying to find his father. Living alone with loneliness, the ghost boy wants to make friends with people. He enjoys making trouble, and causes chaos throughout the villagers.
Producer
Four girlfriends plot to determine whether the cute metrosexual man their friend plans to marry is really straight.
Director
Four girlfriends plot to determine whether the cute metrosexual man their friend plans to marry is really straight.
Producer
Recovering from an accident, an artist is torn between the nurse who is helping him recover and a college friend for whom he secretly longs.
Producer
A failed engineering student in the late 1940s gets the unexpected education of a lifetime by working for four years in a rainforest tin mine.
Owner of Soft Boiled Rice Store
A group of house maids are transferred to be secret agents to investigate a suspicious event with modest technology equipment. The new blood agents struggle in the rough and tough mission without the knowledge of how to use the equipment and that leads to the failure of their mission. Are they gonna make it while they have to do housework and the mission in the same time?
Screenplay
A group of house maids are transferred to be secret agents to investigate a suspicious event with modest technology equipment. The new blood agents struggle in the rough and tough mission without the knowledge of how to use the equipment and that leads to the failure of their mission. Are they gonna make it while they have to do housework and the mission in the same time?
Producer
A group of house maids are transferred to be secret agents to investigate a suspicious event with modest technology equipment. The new blood agents struggle in the rough and tough mission without the knowledge of how to use the equipment and that leads to the failure of their mission. Are they gonna make it while they have to do housework and the mission in the same time?
Director
A group of house maids are transferred to be secret agents to investigate a suspicious event with modest technology equipment. The new blood agents struggle in the rough and tough mission without the knowledge of how to use the equipment and that leads to the failure of their mission. Are they gonna make it while they have to do housework and the mission in the same time?
Producer
Jeab hears that his childhood sweetheart Noi-Naa is to be married, so he makes the trip back home to his provincial village. As he does so, the memories come flooding back to his childhood in 1980s Thailand. He remembers always being late to school, so his father would have to give him a ride on the back of the motorcycle. After school, he would always play with Noi-Naa and her girlfriends while the neighborhood boys rode their bicycles and played football and Chinese fantasy characters.
Tee's Father
Jeab hears that his childhood sweetheart Noi-Naa is to be married, so he makes the trip back home to his provincial village. As he does so, the memories come flooding back to his childhood in 1980s Thailand. He remembers always being late to school, so his father would have to give him a ride on the back of the motorcycle. After school, he would always play with Noi-Naa and her girlfriends while the neighborhood boys rode their bicycles and played football and Chinese fantasy characters.
Screenplay
Sequel to the surprise hit about a gay volleyball team having troubles with their success and fame, and how they reunite after they split because of creative differences.
Director
Sequel to the surprise hit about a gay volleyball team having troubles with their success and fame, and how they reunite after they split because of creative differences.
Producer
A university student with a secret returns home for a festival celebrating an annual shower of fireballs with origins that are fiercely debated.
Screenplay
Los dos personajes principales, Mon y Jung, interpretan a dos travestis homosexuales, a quienes los entrenadores de voleibol habían pasado por alto constantemente debido a su apariencia. Sin embargo, cuando un equipo local cambia de entrenador, el nuevo entrenador realiza pruebas para un nuevo equipo. Cuando se seleccionan Mon y Jung, la mayoría de los jugadores viejos renuncian, dejando al nuevo entrenador, Coach Bee, en una difícil situación.
Director
Los dos personajes principales, Mon y Jung, interpretan a dos travestis homosexuales, a quienes los entrenadores de voleibol habían pasado por alto constantemente debido a su apariencia. Sin embargo, cuando un equipo local cambia de entrenador, el nuevo entrenador realiza pruebas para un nuevo equipo. Cuando se seleccionan Mon y Jung, la mayoría de los jugadores viejos renuncian, dejando al nuevo entrenador, Coach Bee, en una difícil situación.
MC
Pu is a young woman who is having some bad dreams. Her father, meanwhile, has fallen in love with a karaoke bar hostess girl named Yok who's the girlfriend of a mobster. A hitman named Noi is then dispatched to kill the father, and Pu ends up falling in love with Noi.
