Meet the person making documentary cinema mainstream in Bangkok
Thida Plitpholkarnpim, 45, founded the Documentary Club in 2014 through the crowdsourcing platform Taejai.com, and since has grown it into a 130,000-strong community of independent film enthusiasts. Now, the club is set to take over two new homes in Bangkok’s upcoming creative spaces of Chang Chui and Warehouse 30, where they plan to host regular screenings. Here, Thida discusses problems with documentary distribution in Thailand, and how they will survive in the era of movie streaming.
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