Jira Maligool

Jira Maligool

Nascimento : 1961-02-24, Thailand

História

Jira Maligool is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. graduated in 1983 from Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Communication Arts, where he majored in film and photography. While still a student, he worked as a music video and movie commercial director. In 1991, he co-founded his own film studio, Hub Ho Hin Bangkok (later Hub Ho Hin Films). In 2003, it was merged with GMM Grammy's film division GMM Pictures and Visute Poolvoralaks' company Tai Entertainment to form GMM Tai Hub (or GTH). In 2016, he became key person for GDH 559 a film studio that successor to GTH. He was also behind the hit 2003 film, My Girl, a nostalgic look at childhood in 1980s Thailand. The film's ensemble of six directors – were students of Jira, who taught as a part-time professor in photography and cinematography classes at Chulalongkorn University. Two of those directors, Komgrit and Songyos, went on to direct hit films, Komgrit helming the romantic comedy Dear Dakanda in 2005 and Songyos with the hit 2006 thriller Dorm.

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Jira Maligool

Filmes

Not Friends
Executive Producer
A group of high school students, fueled by their shared passion for filmmaking, sets out to create a short film based on the life of their beloved classmate. Little do they know, their endeavor will lead them to uncover their friend’s hidden secrets that could change their perspective on their passion forever.
Not Friends
Film Directors' Posing Reference
A group of high school students, fueled by their shared passion for filmmaking, sets out to create a short film based on the life of their beloved classmate. Little do they know, their endeavor will lead them to uncover their friend’s hidden secrets that could change their perspective on their passion forever.
Remembering Fan Chan
Executive Producer
Documentary 5 chapter celebrating the 20th anniversary of "My Girl"
You & Me & Me
Executive Producer
A nostalgic, coming-of-age story of identical twin sisters who share every aspect of their lives with one another, until one day a boy walks into their lives and puts their strong bond to the test.
Desencontros do Amor
Producer
Sempre desajeitado, Guy é muito apaixonado por June. Mas, como uma brincadeira do destino, ele sempre escolhe o pior momento para declarar seu amor.
Love Destiny: The Movie
Producer
Casal destinado, Bhop e Gaysorn, tem seu amor e crenças desafiados em meio a ameaças selvagens durante a expansão do domínio colonial.
Veloz, Furioso e Apaixonado
Executive Producer
O campeão de um esporte inusitado luta para conciliar sua vida amorosa com a defesa do título de empilhador de copos mais rápido do mundo.
One for the Road
Thanks
Boss, an elusive bar owner living in New York, reunites with his estranged best friend, Aood, for a roadtrip in Thailand after Aood has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Ghost Lab
Executive Producer
Depois de testemunhar uma assombração em seu hospital, dois médicos tornam-se perigosamente obcecados em obter provas científicas de que fantasmas existem.
The Con-Heartist
Producer
Ina, whose ex-boyfriend runs off, leaving her in debt, manages to catch on a cunning con artist who tries to con her. But instead of turning him to the police, she hires this con artist to swindle her ex-boyfriend to get revenge.
Happy Old Year
Executive Producer
Uma mulher quer reorganizar sua casa e transformá-la em um escritório doméstico. Ela pretende jogar fora tudo o que não foi usado. No entanto, ela enfrenta um grande desafio quando encontra alguns itens que pertenciam a seu ex-namorado.
Tootsies & The Fake
Producer
Tootsies e os Falsos
Tootsies & The Fake
Script Supervisor
Tootsies e os Falsos
Friend Zone
Producer
In this world, there are many people who seem to be wandering along a relationship border-lining friends and lovers. This borderline is also commonly known as the friend zone. It is a special area for those who are stuck in the middle where they cannot really stay friends with their close friends, nor move forward to be their friends' lovers.
Homestay
Producer
When a spirit inhabits the body of a teen named Min, he begins to settle into his life until he's forced to find out who caused Min's mysterious death.
2,215
Producer
This documentary follows the marathon run led by Athiwara “Toon Bodyslam” Khongmalai to raise funds for Thailand’s public hospitals throughout the 55-day journey from Betong, Yala in Thailand’s deep south to northernmost district of Mae Sai, Chiang Rai.
Brother of the Year
Producer
Jane lives with her brother Chut with her being the only one doing everything around the house. But Chut will need to learn to take care of himself when Jane becomes involved romantically with a Japanese coworker.
Brother of the Year
Script Supervisor
Jane lives with her brother Chut with her being the only one doing everything around the house. But Chut will need to learn to take care of himself when Jane becomes involved romantically with a Japanese coworker.
The Promise
Script Supervisor
Ib and Boum decide to commit suicide together in Bangkok in 1997. After reneging on the promise, the vengeful ghost of Ib returns 20 years later to haunt Boum and her 15 year old daughter, Bell.
The Promise
Producer
Ib and Boum decide to commit suicide together in Bangkok in 1997. After reneging on the promise, the vengeful ghost of Ib returns 20 years later to haunt Boum and her 15 year old daughter, Bell.
Gênios do Mal
Producer
Lynn é uma estudante superdotada que resolve ajudar sua melhor amiga Grace e o filhinho de papai Pat a obterem melhores notas nos exames do colégio. O que começa como simples aulas particulares logo evolui para colas elaboradas, e o serviço prestado passa a ser muito bem remunerado. Certo dia, Lynn vê a oportunidade de ganhar milhões em um esquema para fraudar as respostas do exame STIC, espécie de ENEM internacional que abre as portas de grandes universidades em todo o mundo, a ser realizado em Sydney, na Austrália. Porém ela precisará da ajuda de Bank, seu maior rival nos estudos, que se recusa a cometer fraudes.
A Gift
Writer
Featuring musical compositions of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, three love stories tackle unique challenges on romantic, soul-searching journeys.
A Gift
Director
Featuring musical compositions of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, three love stories tackle unique challenges on romantic, soul-searching journeys.
One Day
Script Supervisor
A woman suffers from a rare form of temporary amnesia, lasting for a day. Her shy colleague, who is secretly in love with her, tells her that they are a couple in order to experience being with her for just one day.
One Day
Producer
A woman suffers from a rare form of temporary amnesia, lasting for a day. Her shy colleague, who is secretly in love with her, tells her that they are a couple in order to experience being with her for just one day.
Ataque do Caração
Producer
Um trabalhador freelancer se apaixona por uma médica. Passando por um momento complicado, ele sente que sua vida está ficando pior a cada segundo. Mas tudo pode mudar, agora que ele acredita ter encontrado um caminho para se libertar de todo o sofrimento.
May Who?
Producer
As May's heart rate rises, she emits electricity. When she falls for the school heartthrob, she enlists the help of Pong, who has a crush of his own.
I Fine.. Thank You..Love You
Producer
Desperate to go to the U.S. to win back his girlfriend, Yim hires a tutor to teach him English. But things don't go according to plan.
I Fine.. Thank You..Love You
Script Supervisor
Desperate to go to the U.S. to win back his girlfriend, Yim hires a tutor to teach him English. But things don't go according to plan.
The Swimmers
Script Supervisor
After falling pregnant to Perth, her boyfriend's best friend, Ice commits suicide. She returns to haunt Perth while Tan seeks out the person who made her kill herself for his own revenge.
The Swimmers
Producer
After falling pregnant to Perth, her boyfriend's best friend, Ice commits suicide. She returns to haunt Perth while Tan seeks out the person who made her kill herself for his own revenge.
The Teacher's Diary
Producer
Finding the diary of his predecessor, rural schoolteacher Song falls in love with its author, Ann, and sets out on a winding journey to find her.
Countdown
Script Supervisor
Três adolescentes tailandeses em Nova Iorque planejam a noite de Reveillón de suas vidas. Eles chamam Jesus, um traficante, para deixar drogas em seu apartamento, assim poderão comemorar a virada e a contagem para o novo ano de uma maneira diferente. O que não esperavam é que a visita de Jesus mudará suas vidas para sempre.
Countdown
Producer
Três adolescentes tailandeses em Nova Iorque planejam a noite de Reveillón de suas vidas. Eles chamam Jesus, um traficante, para deixar drogas em seu apartamento, assim poderão comemorar a virada e a contagem para o novo ano de uma maneira diferente. O que não esperavam é que a visita de Jesus mudará suas vidas para sempre.
Seven Something
Producer
Three modern love stories focus on how digital privacy, fleeting fame and the power of personal reinvention can change one's romantic destiny.
Seven Something
Screenplay
Three modern love stories focus on how digital privacy, fleeting fame and the power of personal reinvention can change one's romantic destiny.
Seven Something
Director
Three modern love stories focus on how digital privacy, fleeting fame and the power of personal reinvention can change one's romantic destiny.
ATM: Er Rak Error
Producer
Sua e Jib são como qualquer outro casal neste mundo, a não ser por uma exceção: nos últimos cinco anos, eles mantiveram a relação em segredo desde que o banco em que trabalham tem uma rígida política de "Não Confraternização". Não é um grande negócio, até que eles decidem se casar. O único problema? Qual desses dois vai colocar o casamento antes da carreira e renunciar? Os dois vão trabalhar no caso quando ocorre uma falha de ATM na província de Chonburi, que faz com que o banco perca cerca de 130 mil dólares baht. Os termos são simples: quem for capaz de recuperar o dinheiro em primeiro lugar fica com o seu trabalho. O casal vai se transformar em concorrentes sem tabus. É a velha batalha dos sexos, mas, desta vez, como pode ser facilmente declarada vitória em uma guerra onde não existem "regras de engajamento" mais tradicionais?
ATM: Er Rak Error
Script Supervisor
Sua e Jib são como qualquer outro casal neste mundo, a não ser por uma exceção: nos últimos cinco anos, eles mantiveram a relação em segredo desde que o banco em que trabalham tem uma rígida política de "Não Confraternização". Não é um grande negócio, até que eles decidem se casar. O único problema? Qual desses dois vai colocar o casamento antes da carreira e renunciar? Os dois vão trabalhar no caso quando ocorre uma falha de ATM na província de Chonburi, que faz com que o banco perca cerca de 130 mil dólares baht. Os termos são simples: quem for capaz de recuperar o dinheiro em primeiro lugar fica com o seu trabalho. O casal vai se transformar em concorrentes sem tabus. É a velha batalha dos sexos, mas, desta vez, como pode ser facilmente declarada vitória em uma guerra onde não existem "regras de engajamento" mais tradicionais?
The Billionaire
Producer
Inspired by a true story, this uplifting drama focuses on a young Thai entrepreneur's incredible business success, despite obstacles and self-doubt.
Laddaland
Producer
A family moves into a new house where they gradually begin to encounter paranormal and horror events.
Suck Seed
Producer
Ped, Koong e Ern estudavam juntos quando crianças. Ern teve que se mudar antes que Ped dissesse que a amava. No Ensino Médio, Ern volta para a escola, só que Koong se apaixona por ela. Para chamar a atenção dela e das outras garotas da escola, eles formam uma banda de rock! Como conciliar a amizade quando se luta pela mesma mulher?
Hello Stranger
Producer
During the Songkran festival, two strangers who had never met before end up going home together, perhaps finding love.
The Little Comedian
Script Supervisor
Tock, heir to a long line of comedians has a problem. He is not funny. Constantly upstage by his younger sister, he falls in love with a dermatologist who incidentally is the only one who finds him funny.
The Little Comedian
Producer
Tock, heir to a long line of comedians has a problem. He is not funny. Constantly upstage by his younger sister, he falls in love with a dermatologist who incidentally is the only one who finds him funny.
Bangkok Traffic Love Story
Story
After an encounter with an engineer working the night shift for the city train, a 30-year-old woman struggles against all odds to pursue true love.
Bangkok Traffic Love Story
Producer
After an encounter with an engineer working the night shift for the city train, a 30-year-old woman struggles against all odds to pursue true love.
Phobia 2
Director of Photography
An anthology of five macabre short stories about hungry ghosts, comatose brain dead, a group of bright-eyed actors, an unscrupulous car salesman, and careless backpack tourists.
Dear Galileo
Producer
College friends whose lives are at a crossroads decide to spend a year in Europe, working in Thai restaurants, and trying not to get deported.
Dear Galileo
Story
College friends whose lives are at a crossroads decide to spend a year in Europe, working in Thai restaurants, and trying not to get deported.
Coming Soon
Producer
What kind of scenes in a horror film scares you the most? When a ghost appears totally unexpectedly? When the main character does not see the ghost sneaking up behind him? When at the very end you find out that the main character was actually a ghost all along? But none of this compares to the feeling of arriving home alone and suddenly being stuck by a feeling of deja-vu.
Handle Me with Care
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.
4bia
Producer
Four horror tales revolve around an accident victim, a bullied youth, ghost stories and a deceased princess.
Body
Producer
Troubled by recurring dreams about the ghost of a murdered woman, an engineering student connects his visions to a disturbing missing person case.
The Bedside Detective
Cinematography
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.
The Bedside Detective
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.
Kung Fu Tootsie
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.
Final Score
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.
The Possible
Camera Operator
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.
The Possible
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.
Lucky Loser
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.
Seasons Change
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.
Seasons Change
Janitor
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.
See How They Run
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.
Metrosexual
Producer
Four girlfriends plot to determine whether the cute metrosexual man their friend plans to marry is really straight.
Metrosexual
Owner (in picture)
Four girlfriends plot to determine whether the cute metrosexual man their friend plans to marry is really straight.
Dear Dakanda
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.
The Tin Mine
Screenplay
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.
The Tin Mine
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.
The Tin Mine
Director
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.
M.A.I.D.
Mr. Jira
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?
M.A.I.D.
Camera Operator
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?
M.A.I.D.
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?
My Girl
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.
My Girl
Lion Club Minister
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.
The Iron Ladies 2
Director of Photography
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.
The Iron Ladies 2
Producer
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.
Mekhong Full Moon Party
Writer
A university student with a secret returns home for a festival celebrating an annual shower of fireballs with origins that are fiercely debated.
Mekhong Full Moon Party
Director
A university student with a secret returns home for a festival celebrating an annual shower of fireballs with origins that are fiercely debated.
As Damas de Ferro
Screenplay
O mais divertido filme do momento é a história do dia-a-dia dos jogadores gays, travestis e transexuais, campeões de Voleibol da Tailândia. Mong e Jung, talantosos jogadores de voleibol, eram constantemente discriminados por várias equipes por serem homossexuais. A sorte deles era quando a treinadora Bee propõe uma nova filosofia em que todos são aceitos. Dirigido por Youngyooth Thongkonthun, AS Damas de Ferro, segundo maior sucesso do cinema Tailandês de todos os tempos, conta a verdadeira história do time de voleibol do Distrito de Lampang, que venceu o campeonato nacional da Tailândia em 1996 com um time composto por homossexuais, transexuais e travestis, tendo como treinadora uma lésbica.
As Damas de Ferro
Director of Photography
O mais divertido filme do momento é a história do dia-a-dia dos jogadores gays, travestis e transexuais, campeões de Voleibol da Tailândia. Mong e Jung, talantosos jogadores de voleibol, eram constantemente discriminados por várias equipes por serem homossexuais. A sorte deles era quando a treinadora Bee propõe uma nova filosofia em que todos são aceitos. Dirigido por Youngyooth Thongkonthun, AS Damas de Ferro, segundo maior sucesso do cinema Tailandês de todos os tempos, conta a verdadeira história do time de voleibol do Distrito de Lampang, que venceu o campeonato nacional da Tailândia em 1996 com um time composto por homossexuais, transexuais e travestis, tendo como treinadora uma lésbica.