Acting
Feb 7, 1996
Bangkok, Thailand
Awat Ratanapintha
Acting
Biography
Awat Ratanapintha (Somkit) is a Thai actor, screenwriter, and emerging producer with over 14 years of experience in film, television, and acting. His experience, creative work, and producing practice span short films, artist documentaries, and experimental live performance. His notable works include “Doi Boy” (2023), “Beneath the Skin” (2024), and “Operation Undead” (2024). An alumnus of Berlinale Talents, his performance in “Doi Boy” earned him the Rising Star award at BIFF, multiple Best Actor awards in Thailand, and a nomination at the Asian Film Awards. He is known as a versatile and dedicated actor and filmmaker, crafting emotionally resonant and socially engaged stories across mediums.
Feature Films (8)
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, an investigator probing a political activist.
Doi Boy
On the 10th day of quarantine, Aey heard a female voice from the balcony of the next room. They started chatting because they were both lonely.
Day 10
Inexperienced Thai soldiers battle a growing undead menace in this gruesome survival horror. A Japanese military experiment that turns men into monsters escapes containment, it’s up to these troops to save their nation from annihilation.
Operation Undead
Vindictive spirits, lurking dangers and a peculiar shrine terrorize unsuspecting students who tangle with the supernatural in this horror anthology.
Haunted Universities 3
Mary is in her last course of school. She'll confront sudden changes in her life, loving relations and friendship. Based on some tweets of an anonymous girl.
Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy
A stateless Hmong woman assumes the identity of another who looks just like her to escape oppression and reinvent herself in Cold War Thailand.
The Chameleon Woman
A boy who doesn't believe in love ends up falling for the girl next door that he once scorned, only to find out he cannot love and that he is cupid, in order to love he must help three people successfully fall in love.
My Name Is Love
While an invisible smoke engulfs western Thailand, a displaced couple from the Karen ethnic minority dream of returning home.
The Burning Giants
Television & Series (9)
Sports and friendship intertwine in tales of a volleyball team, an autistic badminton player, a skateboarder with depression and an archery-club crush.
Project S
Every school has a past that people want to be concealed. There are things that happened that people don't want to talk about. There are students whom people want to forget. And there are secrets waiting for the day that they're revealed.
ThirTEEN Terrors
The eclectic staff of an idealistic radio station must rethink its strategy to gain more listeners and earn new clients to survive.
Cat Radio TV
A mysterious, clever girl named Nanno transfers to different schools, exposing the lies and misdeeds of the students and faculty at every turn.
Girl from Nowhere
A suspense and mature drama about five different people and how their lives get intertwined by a twist of fate and jealousy. Some of them will soon learn what it is like to get betrayed by a friend and to betray... all while trying hard to get what they want the most - love.
