Pen-ek Ratanaruang | |
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เป็นเอก รัตนเรือง | |
 Pen-ek at press preview for Ploy in 2007 | |
| Born | 8 March 1962 |
| Education | Pratt Institute |
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Pen-ek Ratanaruang (Thai: เป็นเอก รัตนเรือง; RTGS: Pen-ek Rattanarueang; born 8 March 1962, Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his arthouse work, Last Life in the Universe, and is considered to be one of Thai cinema's leading "new wave" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He goes by the nickname Tom and is sometimes credited as Tom Pannet.