Parinee Buthrasri is a cinematographer and producer based in Thailand and Czech Republic. She began her career at Electric Eel Films in 2009 as a still photographer for a film Mundane History. Throughout her 8 years of experience in film industry, she has earned a lot of knowledge on independent film production and has expanded her connection throughout SouthEast Asian film industry. In 2018, Buthrasri decided to continue her ambition in visual story telling and pursued her MA in cinematography at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague, Czech Republic. Buthrasri’s works bring to play with the use of 16mm and 35mm negative and natural lighting.

Her most recent works included A Room With A Coconut View (2018), directed by Tulapop Saenjaroen, had its world premiere at 71st Locarno Film Festival and won awards from Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Arkipel Festival Jakarta and Moscow International Experimental Film Festival. With the same collaborator, People on Sunday (2020), premiered at 49th International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020 and won Special Mention Award from Moving Image category, Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize, Singapore and 24th Thai Short Film and Video Festival. In 2021, Lemongrass Girl (2021), directed by Pom Bunsermvicha, had its world premiere at 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 - Tiger Short Competition.

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