Lee Chatametikool (Thai: ลี ชาตะเมธีกุล) is a Thai film editor and sound editor. He is a frequent collaborator with Apichatpong Weerasethakul and other Thai independent directors, but has also worked on commercial films, including the hit Thai horror film, Shutter.
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| ลี ชาตะเมธีกุล | |
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| Years active | 2002–present |
Lee studied filmmaking in the United States. He has been active since 1999, when he directed a short film, Miami Strips, Hollywood Dreams (Muang maya, krung tida). The film was the runner-up winner of the Rattana Pestonji Award for Best Thai Short Film at the 2000 Thai Short Film and Video Festival.
He has worked with Apichatpong Weerasethakul on five films: Blissfully Yours, Tropical Malady, Syndromes and a Century, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and Memoria. At the inaugural Asian Film Awards in 2007 in Hong Kong, Lee won the Best Editor award for Syndromes and a Century.
In 2002, Lee founded his own post-production company, Houdini Studio.
Filmography edit
As director edit
- Miami Strips, Hollywood Dreams (Muang maya, krung tida, 1999)
- Concrete Clouds, ภวังค์รัก (2013)
As film editor edit
- Blissfully Yours (2002)
- One Night Husband (2003)
- Sayew (2003)
- Fake (2003)
- Tropical Malady (2004)
- Shutter (2004)
- Midnight My Love (2005)
- Ghost of Mae Nak (2005, contributing)
- The Elephant King (2006)
- Graceland (2006)
- Syndromes and a Century (2006)
- The Sperm (2007)
- Wonderful Town (2007)
- Love of Siam (2007)
- Block B (2008)
- Karaoke (2009)
- Mundane History (2009)
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
- Hellgate (2011)
- Home (2012)
- Cemetery of Splendour (2015)
- Apprentice (2016)
- Pop Aye (2017)
- Malila: The Farewell Flower (2017)
- Manta Ray (2018)
- So Long, My Son (2019)
- The Cave (2019)
- Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (2021)
- Yuni (2021)
- Memoria (2021)
- All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023)
As sound editor edit
- Blissfully Yours (2002)
- One Night Husband (2003)
- Sayew (2003)
- Tropical Malady (2004)
As post-production supervisor edit
- Invisible Waves (2005)
- Twelve Twenty (For Jeonju International Film Festival's Digital Short Films by Three Directors project, 2006)
External links edit
- Houdini Studio, Lee Chatametikool's post-production company
- Lee Chatametikool at IMDb
- Lee Chatametikool interview at YouTube from the 2007 Sarajevo Film Festival
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