{"id":751038,"date":"2026-08-27T04:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T04:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751038\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T04:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T04:28:15","slug":"apichatpong-weerasethakul-4k-restorations-land-at-the-match-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/751038\/","title":{"rendered":"Apichatpong Weerasethakul 4K Restorations Land at The Match Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFour newly 4K-restored features by Thai auteur <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/apichatpong-weerasethakul\/\" id=\"auto-tag_apichatpong-weerasethakul\" data-tag=\"apichatpong-weerasethakul\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apichatpong Weerasethakul<\/a> have been acquired by <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-match-factory\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-match-factory\" data-tag=\"the-match-factory\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Match Factory<\/a> for international sales, the company has revealed, with a formal launch planned for the upcoming Venice International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe quartet spans more than a decade of Weerasethakul\u2019s work: \u201cBlissfully Yours\u201d (2002), recipient of the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes; \u201cTropical Malady\u201d (2004), winner of the Cannes Jury Prize; \u201cSyndromes and a Century\u201d (2006), which bowed in Competition at Venice; and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/uncle-boonmee-who-can-recall-his-past-lives\/\" id=\"auto-tag_uncle-boonmee-who-can-recall-his-past-lives\" data-tag=\"uncle-boonmee-who-can-recall-his-past-lives\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives<\/a>\u201d (2010), which claimed the Palme d\u2019Or at Cannes. The Match Factory holds rights in all territories except North America, the U.K., Ireland, Japan, Switzerland, and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe acquisitions deepen an existing relationship between the sales outfit and the filmmaker. The Match Factory already represents \u201cMekong Hotel\u201d (2012), \u201cCemetery of Splendour\u201d (2015), and \u201cMemoria\u201d (2021) \u2013 the latter a Cannes Jury Prize recipient starring Tilda Swinton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWeerasethakul personally supervised each restoration, which features audio that has been remastered and remixed alongside four newly commissioned key artworks. The project drew on institutional and private backing from the Thai Film Archive, MoMA, Strand Releasing, Tomo Suzuki, Mehelli Modi and Second Run, and Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que Suisse, with production support from White Light Studio, 185 films, and Kick the Machine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWeerasethakul operates outside the Thai commercial studio system, channeling his projects through Kick the Machine Films, the production banner he established in 1999 to champion independent and experimental work. Alongside his eight feature films, his output spans short films, video installations, and live performances, with retrospectives mounted at institutions including Tate Modern, the Centre Pompidou, and MoMA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four newly 4K-restored features by Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul have been acquired by The Match Factory for international&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[248036,6491,96,156729,56,248037,54,55,10306],"class_list":["post-751038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-apichatpong-weerasethakul","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-the-match-factory","tag-uk","tag-uncle-boonmee-who-can-recall-his-past-lives","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-venice-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}