An image from Transistor Love Story, one of the productions that also features Pen-Ek Ratanaruang.

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

March 8, 1962 — Bangkok, Thailand

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (Thai: เป็นเอก รัตนเรือง) A Thai film director and screenwriter best known for his arthouse work "Last Life in the Universe", and is considered to be one of Thai cinema's leading "new wave" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He goes by the nickname Tom and is sometimes credited as Tom Pannet.