DOI BOY

Directed by NONTAWAT NUMBENCHAPOL

Sorn, an ethnic Shan sex worker, tries to build a future in Chiang Mai, Thailand, as a refugee far from home, but he is drawn into a complex relationship with one client, a police officer investigating a political activist.

Thailand/Cambodia | Fiction | Color | DCP | 2.35 | 99 min

Director and Writer: Nontawat Numbenchapol

Starring:
Awat Ratanapintha ("Sorn")
Arak Amornsupasiri ("Ji")
Aim Thavornsiri ("Wuth")
Panisara Rikulsurakan ("Bee")
Ornjira Lamwilai ("Som")

Delegate Producers: Supatcha Thipsena (Bow), Steve Chen, Daniel Mattes, Davy Chou
Production Companies: Neramitnung Pictures, Mobile Lab Project, Anti-Archive

Director of Photography: Rimvydas LEIPUS, LAC
Editor: Harin PAESONGTHAI
Production Designer: Akekarat HOMLAOR
Sound: Nopawat Likitwong, Kaikangwol Rungsakorn
Music: Katenan Juntimathorn

Currently in post-production.

awards, financing, and events

press

Winner - 2019 Lovers Goes Industry - Lovers Film Festival, Torino, Italy
Purin Prize (top prize) - 2017 Southeast Asian Fiction Film Lab (SEAFIC) / Produire Au Sud
Special Mention Award - 2017 Talents Tokyo - Supatcha Thipsena, Producer

2019 Cannes Thai Pitch
2018 Cannes Cinéfondation l'Atelier - Official Selection, invitation only
2018 Berlinale Co-Production Market (with support from Goethe-Institut Thailand)
2018 Busan Asian Film School (AFiS) - Supatcha Thipsena, Producer
2017 Luang Prabang Film Lab - Nontawat Numbenchapol, Director
2017 Busan Festival Asian Project Market
2017 EAVE Ties That Bind - Steve Chen, Producer

Neramitnung Adds '4 Kings' Sequel and Davy Chou-produced 'Doi Boy' to Busan Slate (Exclusive) / ScreenDaily / 8 Oct 2022

Cannes: Thai Pitch Returns to Launch Three Titles / Variety / 17 Apr 2019

Cannes Cinéfondation Atelier unveils 15 titles for 2018 edition / ScreenDaily / 2 Mar 2018

The Thai Filmmaker Documenting Life at the Margins / OZY / 20 Feb 2018

Berlinale Co-Production Market Line-Up Announced / Cineuropa / 15 Jan 2018

Southeast Asia's SEAFIC lab hands out inaugural prizes / ScreenDaily / 4 Jul 2017

Busan: SEAFIC Picks Projects for First Production Lab / Variety / 8 Oct 2016