Here's the place where it's all going to be happening; it's the newly opened Siam Paragon - one of Asia's largest shopping and entertainment complexes, located adjacent to Siam Square in the heart of Bangkok. The festival's headquarters and Film Market will all be based in the Royal Paragon Hall convention venue, with film screenings happening at the Paragon Cinepolis which houses 15 separate movie theatres.BKKIFF have now confirmed some more films to be shown during the festival, but apparently the final programme won't be confirmed until one week before the Opening Gala screening (Invisible Waves). The line up includes a number of Academy Award nominated films (Good Night, And Good Luck, Transamerica, Pride & Prejudice, Mrs. Henderson Presents and The Constant Gardener) alongside a wide variety of other international movies. Titles that have caught my eye so far include Chan-wook Park's Lady Vengeance, The Ghost Of Mae Nak from British director Mark Duffield, the gory looking Thai horror Art Of The Devil 2, Peter Chan's musical Perhaps Love, the Brian Jones biopic Stoned and Atom Egoyan's showbiz mystery Where The Truth Lies.
Tomorrow I fly out to Hong Kong (with Portia the weather pixie in tow), so I shall attempt to post from there in the next few days!
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