Finally, we can forget about DVDs. Streaming video is the future for independent films from Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries, with new online platforms popping up to offer hard-to-find movies online.
Among the new companies is FilmDoo, a U.K.-based video-on-demand (VOD) startup that was launched at the Cannes Film Festival.
I recently gave FilmDoo's "bespoke" platform a try, and found it worked just great on the laptop. I imagine it would also work fine on a Smart TV, with a laptop connected, either through a cable into the HDMI port or with something like Chromecast. FilmDoo didn't work so well on my tablet, nor on the Smart TV web browser.
Anyway, the company was co-founded by a Thai, Weerada Sucharitkul and Briton William Page. Most of the company's offerings are availlable only in the U.K. and Ireland, but they recently released a few titles for worldwide consumption. They are:
- The Last Executioner
- The Second Life of Thieves
- I Carried You Home
- Ghost of Mae Nak
- Mindfulness and Murder
- Butterfly Man
- Boundary
- Vientiane in Love
- Psiko: Pencuri Hati
- At the Horizon
And three titles are available for streaming on FilmDoo exclusively in Thailand:
- Patong Girl
- Soi Cowboy
- The Elephant King
The selection includes the bulk of the back-catalog of producer-director Tom Waller and his Bangkok-based De Warrenne Pictures, with Thai indies Boundary and I Carried You Home rounding out the Thai slate.
Further Southeast Asian offerings come from Lao New Wave Cinema with At the Horizon and Vientiane in Love, plus two from Malaysia.
There is further information about FilmDoo in an article in The Nation.
Do the movies come with English subtitles?
ReplyDeleteYes, yes, yes, there are English subtitles.
DeleteI have seen some good Asian movies and it is good.
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