Pailin is a Thai-American journalist and filmmaker. She is the founder of 2050 Productions.
HOPE FROZEN is her first feature-length documentary as director and the first Thai film to win an International Emmy. The film which is a Netflix Original is about a Thai-Buddhist-scientist family who decided to cryopreserve their two-year-old daughter’s brain after she died. It’s about life, death, faith and love and how technology is redefining our very existence.
It screened at more than twenty festivals worldwide and won BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE at HotDocs in Toronto (qualifying it for the OSCARS) among other awards at film festivals in the Netherlands, China, Uruguay and Peru. Pailin also won the Best Director award at Thailand’s prestigious Kom Chat Luek awards. Please follow the film on Facebook for more information on the next screening or watch it on Netflix here.
Other than her documentary work she regularly reports/directs reportage films for Al Jazeera English’s current events program 101 East. She has also filmed pieces for The New York Times, National Geographic, Washington Post and Monocle. She was formerly the Asia Interactive producer for the Associated Press.
She grew up in Asia and began her career in 2004 as a photojournalist for an American newspaper. She quickly fell in love with video narratives and taught herself how to film video. In her spare time, Pailin teaches short courses on video and mobile journalism and contributes to the acclaimed Instagram feed @everydayasia.