Tag: chanthaly

We've been big fans and supporter of Lao filmmaker Mattie Do in these parts since we first caught wind of her debut feature, Chanthaly, which was both the first horror film and the first feature directed by a woman in...

We have been tracking the development of Laotian director Mattie Do's sophomore feature Dearest Sister for quite some time here - actively promoting the crowdfunding campaign that helped fund the picture - and are quite pleased to announce that things...

Ladies and gentlemen, the gauntlet has been thrown. With a little more than two weeks left to go in her crowdfunding campaign for sophomore film Dearest Sister (Nong Hak), Laotian director Mattie Do has upped the stakes: Should Dearest Sister...

When Laotian director Mattie Do released her debut feature Chanthaly last year she entered the record books on multiple fronts. For Chanthaly was not only the first horror film made in the history of Laos, it was also the first...

ScreenAnarchy has been following the development of Laotian ghost story Chanthaly with great interest over the previous months. And why not? Director Mattie Do has here delivered the first ever Laotian horror film and is herself the first ever female...

There's an old adage that says never to act with children or animals. And while I have no idea whether Mattie Do's upcoming Laotian horror film Chanthaly involves children it most certainly involves a dog.Raised alone by her overprotective father...

Mattie Do's Chanthaly is a film of firsts. It is, by all accounts, the first horror film produced in Laos. It is also the first Laotian film produced by a female director. But while both of those facts are very...