Biography
Visra Vichit-Vadakan (b. 1981, San Francisco) is part of the new wave of Thai artists. She was born in the United States but moved to Bangkok with her parents at age 9. After graduating in biology from Stanford University she decided to become a filmmaker. This fall she will graduate from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, but having received a Tisch Graduate Film Fellowship she will stay on at the school. She has shot four short films: The Stage (2007), Anatomy (2008), fall (2008) and In Space (2010), which were screened at Rotterdam, Bangkok, and Tribeca. In 2010 her short documentary rise (2009) was screened in competition at KVIFF. Karaoke Girl, her first feature, competed at Rotterdam this year. She is currently working on her next film, Karma Police, having received support from the Rotterdam festival’s Hubert Bals Fund.
48. MFF Karlovy Vary