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Thailand
Pre-Jury

A pre-jury of more than 30 local science education and science communication professionals from the participating countries are closely involved in the selection of the films.

In Thailand the pre-jury in 2023 consisted of the following members:

Yuthinai Youngcharoen

Yuthinai Youngcharoen is Senior Knowledge Management Officer, Learning Activities Department at living Library. He loves watching movies, series, animations and thinks that these media are one of the important tools that can promote learning, generate and inspire more ideas that help expand something in the fields we are interested in.

Senior Knowledge Management Officer, Learning Activities Department at living Library
TK Park

Nannaphat Topun

Nannaphat Topun is an ardent educator/narrator with, perhaps, too much love for science museums and planetariums. She continues her journey from the East Coast at the Science Center for Education and Bangkok Planetarium and firmly believes in people's potential for learning when the opportunity arises.

Educator/narrator
Science Center for Education

Wachiraporn Khwakhong

Wachiraporn Khwakhong graduated with a master's degree from Silpakorn University. He is currently a Film Program Coordinator and responsible for the implementation of School Cinema program activities, Movies for the elderly, including activities to disseminate film knowledge for education. He is delighted that his organization is one of the partners to organize a festival that uses selected films as learning media beyond textbooks for young people, from early childhood levels until high school. The festival's films are also screened to the general public so that everyone has the opportunity to learn science through the context of the film according to the film archive's aspiration “Cinema enlightens”.

Film Program Coordinator
Thai Film Archive

Dr. Piatip Phuapan

Dr. Piatip Phuapan holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Education (Educational Technology), Faculty of Industrial Education, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang. She is currently a Learning Innovation Specialist at Office of Educational Assessment and Innovation, The Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology (IPST). She saw that the Science Film Festival is a great event to educate and entertain. It provides opportunities for teachers and students to access useful and practical facts in science and technology. She wanted this kind of activity to continue indefinitely.

Ph.D. in Industrial Education (Educational Technology)

Noramon Intaranont, Ph.D.

Noramon Intaranont, Ph.D. or Nora is a senior consultant in the Business and Innovation Cluster Development Division at NSTDA, where she began as a research assistant and earned her Ph.D. in Electrochemistry. Alongside her work, she advises Bangkaya Page on waste management in Thailand. Nora is also a co-founder of Plaplus, a startup focused on educating people about the challenges of composting single-use cups made from Polylactic acid (PLA), and recently received the esteemed Goodman Award from the House of Representatives Thailand. Nora's commitment to science communication is reflected in her podcast hosting for "My Friend is a Boffin" and "Sci เข้าหู" by NSTDA. During her leisure time, she enjoys watching documentaries and is excited to contribute to the Science Film Festival in both 2022 and 2023, inspiring and preparing young individuals for their future.

Senior consultant in the Business and Innovation Cluster Development Division at NSTDA

Suphapipatana Yothee

Suphapipatana Yothee graduated with a master's degree in Zoology from Kasetsart University. He is currently a science communicator at National Science Museum Thailand. Science communication is like a digestive system. It breaks down complex science into smaller, absorbable molecules, so that people of all genders and ages can consume. In other words, making difficult things simple. There are many methods and channels of science communication. Science film is one of the methods to "create the scientific society". This year's science films are amazing because they "mix art with science and merge the abstract into the concrete" seamlessly.

Science communicator at National Science Museum Thailand