Songyos Sugmakanan ( th, ทรงยศ สุขมากอนันต์; ; born 20 August 1973), nicknamed Yong (), is a Thai

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...

and producer, best known for film and television work done with the studio GTH/

GDH 559 GDH 559 Co., Ltd. ( th, บริษัท จีดีเอช ห้าห้าเก้า จำกัด), usually known as GDH, is a film studio subsidiary to the Thai entertainment conglomerate GMM Grammy. It was founded on 5 January 20 ...

, and as CEO of its subsidiary

Nadao Bangkok Nadao Bangkok Co., Ltd. ( th, นาดาว บางกอก) is a Thai media company. Founded in 2009, it did business in artist management and television and music production, but ended those operations in 2022. The company is headed by ...

. Songyos graduated from

Chulalongkorn University Chulalongkorn University (CU, th, จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย, ), nicknamed Chula ( th, จุฬาฯ), is a public and autonomous research university in Bangkok, Thailand. The university was originally fo ...

's Faculty of Communication Arts, and made his directorial debut as one of the six directors of the 2003 hit ''

Fan Chan ''Fan Chan'' ( Thai: แฟนฉัน, English: ''My Girl'') is a 2003 Thai coming-of-age romantic film offering a nostalgic look back at the childhood friendship of a boy and girl growing up in a small town in Thailand in the 1980s. It was t ...

'', which led to the formation of GTH. He continued to produce other works with the studio, focusing on youth dramas, including ''

Dorm A dormitory (originated from the Latin word ''dormitorium'', often abbreviated to dorm) is a building primarily providing sleeping and residential quarters for large numbers of people such as boarding school, high school, college or university ...

'' (2006), ''

Hormones A hormone (from the Greek participle , "setting in motion") is a class of signaling molecules in multicellular organisms that are sent to distant organs by complex biological processes to regulate physiology and behavior. Hormones are required fo ...

'' (2008), and '' The Billionaire'' (2011). In 2013, he spearheaded GTH's branching into television through the creation of '' Hormones: The Series'', which became immensely popular and initiated a wave of Thai teen dramas. He serves as CEO of the GTH/GDH 559 talent management agency Nadao Bangkok.

Filmography

* '' My Elephant'' (''Dore Dek Chore Chang'') (2002) - short film * ''

'' (''My Girl'') (2003) - co-directed * ''

'' (''Dek Hor'') (2006) * ''

'' (''Pidtermyai Huajai Wawoon'') (2008) * '' The Billionaire'' (2011) *''Coffie Prince'' (2012) - Remake of Korean drama *''

'' (2013) - TV series *''

In Family We Trust ''In Family We Trust'' (known in Thai as ; , lit. "blood is thick, humaneness is thin") is a drama/ mystery Thai TV series produced by Nadao Bangkok, in association with The One Enterprise and 4Nologue, and broadcast on One 31. It was directed ...

'' (2018)

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