# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/apichatpong-weerasethakul
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:51:07.557Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/apichatpong-weerasethakul"
name: "Apichatpong Weerasethakul"
slug: "apichatpong-weerasethakul"
description: "Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, film producer and Professor at Tama Art University in Tokyo. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, Apichatpong has directed several features and dozens of short films. Friends and fans sometimes refer to him as \"Joe\"."
tagline: "Thai film director, screenwriter, and film producer (born 1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Apichatpong.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1970-07-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.800212
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump