Country

Thailand's country side varies considerably from North to South. Although one can find dense jungles everywhere, the South's jungles stay verdant all year long, while it gets dry in the North from February to April. Likewise there are picturesque rice fields throughout the country, but some provinces will grow off-season as well. They say that Bangkok's population decreases by 10% during the rice harvesting season, because all the hick workers in the city head home to help out.

Thailand is dotted with wonderful little country towns as well... where one can fall into the slow pace of country life. For filming it's idyllic. Northern Thailand is home to hundreds of hill tribe villages as well. This is actually one of the few places in the world where so many completely different cultures live next to each other (and often even in the same village.) Several years ago we coordinated a very interesting Dutch made-for-TV movie in a Lisu hill tribe. We spent over one month in that one village and casted many non-professional villagers in the film.