Tom Waller (full name Thomas de Warrenne Waller; born 4 April 1974 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a film director, screenwriter, and producer. Waller founded the production company De Warrenne Pictures Ltd and secured funding for the film ''

Monk Dawson ''Monk Dawson'' is a 1998 British film directed and produced by Tom Waller and starring John Michie, Benedict Taylor, Martin Kemp, Rhona Mitra, and Paula Hamilton. It was based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Piers Paul Read. In Ca ...

'' (1998), his directorial debut, a story based on an award-winning novel by

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. He went on to produce the films ''Eviction'' (1999), ''

Butterfly Man ''Butterfly Man'' () is a 2002 Thai-British adventure-romantic drama film directed and written by Kaprice Kea and starring Stuart Laing and Napakpapha Nakprasitte. Plot Adam, an English backpacker, breaks up with his girlfriend immediately ...

'' (2002), ''

Ghost of Mae Nak ''Ghost of Mae Nak'' () is a 2005 Thai horror film thriller about a protecting ghost directed and written by British director Mark Duffield. The film stars Pataratida Pacharawirapong, Siwat Chotchaicharin and Porntip Papanai as the ghost. Sy ...

'' (2005), ''

The Elephant King ''The Elephant King'' is a 2006 romantic drama film directed by Seth Grossman. Story It is about a depressed teenager who wants to write a story about an anthropologist in Thailand. The anthropologist character is inspired by his older brother wh ...

'' (2006) and ''

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'', (2008) which was selected in

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at the

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. His second directorial feature was ''Mindfulness and Murder'' (2010), a Thai language murder mystery based on the novel of the same name by Nick Wilgus. In 2006, he directed the music video ''El Nin-YO!'' for Thai singer

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. Waller has also served as producer on three feature titles for American studio

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; '' The Prince and Me 4: The Elephant Adventure'' (2010), '' Elephant White'' (2011) and '' Ninja 2'' (2013). In 2014, he produced and directed The Last Executioner, a biopic on Thailand's last prison executioner, which won the prestigious 'Tukkata Tong' or Golden Doll awards for Best Picture, given by the Thai Entertainment Reporters Association. In 2016 he served as line producer for the action sequel Mechanic: Resurrection, starring

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and

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. In 2016, he won the best director award in Dhak, tional Film Festival. In 2018, Waller directed an

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about the

Tham Luang cave rescue In June/July 2018, a junior association football team became trapped for fifteen days in Tham Luang Nang Non, a cave system in Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand, but were ultimately rescued. Twelve members of the team, aged 11 to 16, and ...

. Titled '' The Cave'' (original Thai title: ''Nang Non''), the film played at the 2019 B al. A reedited version of the film, titled ''Cave Rescue'', was released by

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in 2022. In 2024, he directed ''Kiss of the Con Queen'', starring Ravi Patel.

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