Pimpaka Towira

Pimpaka Towira (Thai: พิมพกา โตวิระ) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter and film producer. Her films include One Night Husband,The Truth Be Told: The Cases Against Supinya Klangnarong and The Island Funeral.

Pimpaka Towira studied film at Thammasat University. After graduating, she worked on one film production, but, in her words, "found it disappointing and dropped out". She went to work as a film critic and writer for The Nation newspaper in Bangkok, and was programming director for 2001 Bangkok Film Festival, which was sponsored by The Nation.

She also made experimental short films. Among her early works was a short called Mae Nak (1997), a deconstruction of the Mae Nak Phra Khanong ghost legend.

Her feature film debut came in 2003 with One Night Husband, a romantic-thriller film that she co-wrote with Prabda Yoon and Laddawan Ratanadilokchai. Co-produced by Mingmongkol Sonakul, the film starred Nicole Theriault and Siriyakorn Pukkavesh. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, and was screened at several other film festivals.

In 2005, Pimpaka was featured in Worldly Desires, portraying a film director in a short film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The film was commissioned as part of the Digital Short Films by Three Directors project of the Jeonju International Film Festival.

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