Pat Boonnitipat (; born 1990) is a Thai television and film director, working mainly with the film studio

GDH 559 GDH 559 Co., Ltd. (), doing business as GDH, is a film studio subsidiary of the Thai entertainment conglomerate GMM Grammy. It was founded on 5 January 2016, as a successor to GMM Tai Hub (GTH) — Thailand's most successful film studio of the ...

. He is known for directing the TV series '' Project S'' and '' Bad Genius'', as well as the 2024 film ''

How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies ''How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies'', known in Thai as ''Lahn Mah'', is a 2024 Thai comedy drama film directed by Pat Boonnitipat in his directorial debut and written by Pat and Thodsapon Thiptinnakorn. It stars Putthipong Assaratanakul ...

''.

Biography

Pat was born into a

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family, and is half Cantonese and half Hakka. Pat graduated school from Roong Aroon School and attained a bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Communication Arts at

Chulalongkorn University Chulalongkorn University (CU; ; , ) is a public university, public Autonomous university, autonomous research university in Bangkok, Thailand. The university was originally founded during King Chulalongkorn's reign as a school for training ro ...

. Although he majored in

communications management Communications management is the systematic planning, implementing, monitoring, and revision of all the channels of communication within an organization and between organizations. It also includes the organization and dissemination of new commun ...

, he developed an interest in filmmaking, and gained experience in camerawork through extracurricular activities. After graduating, he was invited by

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to join the production of teen series ''

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'' as cinematographer. ''Hormones'' proved very popular and ran for three seasons (2013–2015), after which Pat was invited to co-direct GDH's comedy series ''Diary of Tootsies'' (2016) and also directed the TV documentary ''Let Me Grow'' (2016) for

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's Psychiatry Department. Following these works, Songyos and co-producer Kriangkrai Vachiratamporn invited Pat to take the lead director role for a segment of GDH's 2017 series '' Project S''. He helmed the third segment, ''S.O.S'', an exploration of major depressive disorder. After that, he was invited by GDH producers

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and Vanridee Pongsittisak to direct the TV adaptation of the studio's 2017 hit heist thriller film '' Bad Genius'', which was released in 2020 and won several categories at the Nataraja and Komchadluek awards. Pat was then again tapped by the producers to direct ''

'', his film directorial debut. The film was released in 2024 to tremendously positive reception, breaking box office records for GDH and for Thailand throughout Southeast Asia.

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