- Poj Arnon
Poj Arnon ( _th. พจน์ อานนท์) is a Thai
film director .Biography
Career
Poj began his career in the 1980s as an advertising sales manager for "Ter-Kab-Chan Magazine", eventually becoming the magazine's chief editor. His work on the magazine enabled him to scout out and groom many of the Thai teen movie stars of the era.
He started working in the Thai film industry in 1992, working as an assistant director for "Sa-Daew-Haew" by
Five Star Production . He made his directorial debut in 1995 with "Crazy", which was about a character from a Chinesemartial arts television series who finds himself in the real world of modern-dayThailand . Next was "Bullet Teen" (1998), a drama about four troubled urban youths. "Go-Six", his 2000 romantic drama about a love triangle involving a young man and two women was scandalous at the time because of the ambiguous sexuality of one of the women character. Poj returned to the scene in 2003 with "Cheerleader Queens", about a group of teenage Thaitransvestite s, orkathoey , who become high school cheerleaders.In 2004, he shifted to RS Film, again tackling kathoeys with the crime comedy
Spicy Beauty Queen of Bangkok , starringWinai Kraibutr as the leader of a gang of transvestite bank robbers.He next moved to
Sahamongkol Film International to direct the childhood drama "Beautiful Wonderful Perfect", about a girl who befriends a boy withDown syndrome . Also entitled "Er rer", the film was critically acclaimed in Thailand and was screened at overseas film festivals. His followup was an action comedy, "Chai Lai ", about five female crimefighters.Poj was back with Five Star Production in 2007, for "
Haunting Me ", a comedy horror film about a three aging kathoeys battling ghosts in their apartment building.Filmography
* "Crazy" (1995)
* "Bullet Teen" (1998)
* "Go-Six" (2000)
* "Cheerleader Queens" (2003)
* "Spicy Beauty Queen of Bangkok" ("Plon naya") (2004)
* "Beautiful Wonderful Perfect" ("Er rer") (2005)
* "Chai Lai " ("Dangerous Flowers") (2006)
* "Haunting Me " ("Hortaewtak") (2007)
* "Bangkok Love Story " (2007)External links
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* [http://www.fivestarent.com/director/directors.asp?ID_Director=46 Profile at Five Star Production]
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