About

Known credits:
25
Birthday:
1981-03-24
Place of birth:
Bangkok, Thailand
Website:
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Nattawut Poonpiriya

Overview

Nattawut "Baz" Poonpiriya (Thai: นัฐวุฒิ พูนพิริยะ, born 1981) is a Thai director, working extensively on television commercials and music videos, but best known for the thriller films Countdown and Bad Genius.

Nattawut graduated Master of Fine Arts in stage directing from Srinakharinwirot University. After graduating, he worked mainly on television commercials for three years before moving to New York to study graphic design at Pratt Institute. He returned to Thailand in 2011, and worked as a music video director before directing his first feature film, the horror thriller Countdown, for GTH in 2012. The film won three categories at the Suphannahong National Film Awards. Nattawut then made a hiatus from feature films to focus again on advertising. His second feature, Bad Genius, was released in 2017, and won a record-breaking twelve categories at the awards.

Known for

Acting
2023 Not Friends Actor Film Directors' Posing Reference 59
Average
2012 Seven Something Actor Sea You Crew (segment "21/28") 59
Average

Directing
2023 Zi Mui Directing Director N/A
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2022 One for the Road Directing Director 59
Average
2021 The Reels Deal Directing Director N/A
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2018 i STORIES Directing Director 59
Average
2018 i STORIES Directing Director 68
Fair
2017 Girlhattan Directing Director N/A
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2017 Bad Genius Directing Director 71
Good
2015 REUNION Directing Director N/A
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2014 Present Perfect Directing Director 59
Average
2013 The Library Directing Director 59
Average
2012 Countdown Directing Director 58
Average
2010 The Misbehavers Directing Director N/A
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Untitled Nattawut Poonpiriya Project Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2023 Zi Mui Writing Story N/A
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2022 One for the Road Writing Writer 59
Average
2017 Girlhattan Writing Writer N/A
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2017 Bad Genius Writing Screenplay 71
Good
2014 Present Perfect Writing Writer 59
Average
2012 Countdown Writing Screenplay 58
Average
2010 The Misbehavers Writing Screenplay N/A
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Production
2023 Not Friends Production Producer 59
Average
2022 Thai Cave Rescue Production Executive Producer 70
Good

Editing
2010 The Misbehavers Editing Editor N/A
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