BANGKOK -- During a decade of exposing hidden Thai stories and lives in a spate of observational documentaries, filmmaker Nontawat Numbenchapol has always been keenly aware of his responsibility toward his human subjects. His latest body of work, however, finds him going to new lengths to honor that responsibility -- to ensure the anonymity of the migrant workers at its center, he has dropped the role of documentarian altogether.
"My life is elsewhere, but my protagonists live in this location," he said, referring to the ethical concerns that largely spurred his first foray into moviemaking. "And I worry about their future ... that my films are going to have repercussions."
