Education and career Mingmongkol is the daughter of
Chatumongol Sonakul. She studied film at the
San Francisco Art Institute. She then served as an intern at the
Museum of Modern Art in New York before returning to Thailand. As a director, her films tend towards experimentalism. Her first feature film,
I-San Special, featured the audio from a radio soap opera set in a luxury resort hotel, played out by passengers on a rickety bus heading from
Bangkok to
Isan. Her 2005 feature,
3 Friends, co-directed with
Aditya Assarat and Pum Chinaradee, and starring
Napakpapha Nakprasitte, is a blend of the "movie star exploitation"
VCDs and unscripted
reality television series, showing the bikini-clad actress taking a beach vacation with two other friends. ==Filmography==