Director
Nattawut Poonpiriya
45 years · Bangkok, Thailand · 14 films
Nattawut "Baz" Poonpiriya (Thai: นัฐวุฒิ พูนพิริยะ, born 1981) is a Thai director, working extensively on television commercials and music videos, but best known for the thriller films Countdown and Bad Genius. Nattawut graduated Master of Fine Arts in stage directing from Srinakharinwirot University. After graduating, he worked mainly on television commercials for three years before moving to New York to study graphic design at Pratt Institute. He returned to Thailand in 2011, and worked as a music video director before directing his first feature film, the horror thriller Countdown, for GTH in 2012. The film won three categories at the Suphannahong National Film Awards. Nattawut then made a hiatus from feature films to focus again on advertising. His second feature, Bad Genius, was released in 2017, and won a record-breaking twelve categories at the awards.
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Filmography 13
Gohan
2026 · Producer, Director
Zi Mui
2023 · Director
Not Friends
2023 · Film Directors' Posing Reference, Producer
On Netflix
One for the Road
2022 · Director, Writer
The Reels Deal
2021 · Director
Girlhattan
2017 · Director, Writer
Bad Genius
2017 · Director, Screenplay
On Netflix
REUNION
2015 · Director
Present Perfect
2014 · Writer, Director
The Library
2013 · Director
Countdown
2012 · Director, Screenplay
On Plex
Seven Something
2012 · Sea You Crew (segment "21/28")
On Rakuten Viki
The Misbehavers
2010 · Director, Editor