อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล

Apichatpong Weerasethakul is apparently filming a project inspired by his battles with Thai censors. He was unable to show his last feature, Syndromes and a Century, in his home country because the government (which has a Cultural Surveillance Department) objected to, among other things, a scene depicting a Buddhist monk playing with a remote-controlled UFO. I saw the (uncensored) film at SIFF last year and it was awesome. Weerasethakul has started a protest movement against the Thai government's censorship of Thai film -- no joke, the official that heads up the Ministry of Culture has stated the the populace is too uneducated for art movies, and that filmmakers should be churning out simple comedies. More details available at http://www.kickthemachine.com/.