Jaa Jarunun Phantachat is an award-winning actor, playwright, director and producer and co-artistic director of B-Floor Theatre, a physical theatre group based in Bangkok. A graduate of Chiang Mai University's Faculty of Mass Communication, her physical theatre training includes modern dance, Laban Effort Qualities, Butoh and Viewpoints. She has performed in numerous B-Floor productions and toured internationally.
In 2014, Jaa received the prestigious Silpathorn Award for outstanding merit in theatre from Thailand's Ministry of Contemporary Art and Culture and was an Asian Cultural Council Fellow. In 2015, she received the award for Best Direction from the Thai Section of the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC – Thailand) for “Test of Endurance.” The shows she produced in 2016 (“Fundamental”) and 2018 (“Something Missing”) won Best Ensemble Performance, Best Art Direction, and Best Movement Based Performance from IATC – Thailand.
In 2016 she received the award for Best Actress in the film "Ferris Wheel" from the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia international competition and Thai Short Film & Video Festival.
Beyond her work with B-Floor, Jarunun is a freelance writer, a voice-over director for the online game “Blizzard's Hearthstone” Thailand, and is a co-founder of Collective Thai Scripts, a group that curates the translation and publication of contemporary Thai scripts.
Known for
Zomvivor
When an apocalyptic virus that turns people into zombies ravages a city, a group of students take shelter in a school and fight to survive.
When a dedicated rescue worker inadvertently gets caught up in the kidnapping plot of a mogul's tween daughter, he must save her from the clutches of rival gangs hunting them down with unpredictable dangers around every corner.
When her good tenants go bad, a landlord finds herself terrorized by a cult that seemingly has her husband enthralled — and her daughter in its sights.
A teenage girl spends her vacation in Asia together with her mom and dad. There she meets another guy from France, who uses her, and she is caught by the drug police, arrested and sentenced to jail. Now her parents need to do something to release their innocent girl and punish the real criminal. Conditions in prison are very bad, the authorities are corrupted and are only interested in their money.
A mother and son leave Myanmar in hopes for a better life in Thailand. But what lies across the border are big lessons on discrimination in seemingly small injustices - stories of the many who have gone their way before.
The story of “Fah”, a girl who was born among religious differences between her parents: her father is a Muslim, her mother is a Christian. The suffering and sentimental feelings in her age of 21 make her life insecure. She started to question about the relationship between herself and her parents whether they are really a family or just love-hate-relationship strangers.
When a world champion of sport stacking is dumped by his long-time girlfriend, he has to learn basic adulting skills in order to live alone and take care of himself.
Soon after a mysterious-ritual ceremony has been performed in a house, there are several chilling and inexplicable events happening which allegedly relate to haunting-spirit possession influencing house members into violence.
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.
Laos. In a land ravaged by war and exploitation, a boy whose family believe he is cursed must redeem himself by taking part in a dangerous rocket competition.
On the journey to depict "borders," Because Watching Pacifies captures two KMT military dependents' villages established for surveillance purposes following the Chinese Civil War. In the mountainous region traversed by Taiwan's Central Cross-Island Highway and the highlands that border Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos, the villages were established in conflict zones along ethnic frontiers.
A housekeeper received a film made by her daughter. It's a film that combines found footages of Thailand during the Cold War with the present days images of Bangkok. Through these images she tells a story of the house owner and her own story of coming to the capital.