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| occupation              = Film director, screenwriter
| yearsactive             = 1997-present
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| influences              = Rattana Pestonji, Mitr Chaibancha, Cherd Songsri
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| awards                  = '''Citizen Dog''<br>'''Silpathorn Award for Filmmaking'''<br>2006 – Office of Contemporary Arts and Culture, Thailand Ministry of Culture
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'''Wisit Sasanatieng''' (Thai วิศิษฏ์ ศาสนเที่ยง, born Thai Chinese descent.<ref>[http://www.atimemedia.com/enupdate/archives/000634.html หมานคร หนังรักรื่นรมย์ อารมณ์ดี ประหลาดโลก]; [http://board.palungjit.com/showthread.php?p=17494 หมานคร หนังสวยงาม ประหลาดโลก ใครจะไปดูกับผมบ้าง - Palungjit.com]</ref><ref>[http://www.fivestarent.com/news_events/news.asp?NewsID=15 วิศิษฏ์ เจ๋ง จีน แจ๋ว แต่งเพลงลง หมานคร]</ref> Best known for his colourful debut feature film, ''New Wave" of Thai directors that include Nonzee Nimibutr, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

==Biography==
===Early career===
Wisit studied at the Faculty of Decorative Arts at Silpakorn University, where he was a classmate of Nonzee Nimibutr and set designer Ek Lemchuen.

He started out as an art director at the Film Factory, where he worked with Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. Among television commercials directed by Wisit was a colorful commercial for Wrangler Jeans that featured ''Black Tiger'' star Chartchai Ngamsuan. Wisit continues to work at Film Factory, making commercials (particularly for the MK Restaurants hot pot chain in Thailand) in order to supplement his income in between making feature films. He also is a cartoonist and illustrator.

Wisit entered the film industry as a screenwriter for two of Nonzee's films, 1997's ''Dang Bireley's and Young Gangsters'', set in 1950s Thailand, and the ghost thriller, ''Nang Nak'' in 1999. Critically, and at the box office, the films were successes and marked the beginning of a "new wave" movement in the Thai film industry.

thumb|left|Wisit's directorial debut, ''Tears of the Black Tiger'', was an homage to the Thai action films of the 1960s and 1970s.

===''Tears of the Black Tiger''===
Wisit's feature-film debut was in 2000 with the colorfully audacious ''western. With a romantic melodrama at its core, the story involves outlaws, gunfights, horseback riding, comedic bits and big explosions. The film was an homage to an earlier era of Thai film - the contemplative 1950s dramas of pioneering director Rattana Pestonji as well as the "bomb-the-mountains, burn-the-huts" action films of the 1960s that starred Mitr Chaibancha. One of the leading men from the 1960s and 1970s Thai action-film era, Sombat Metanee, lent his talents to ''Tears of the Black Tiger'', portraying the outlaw leader, Fai.

''Tears of the Black Tiger'' was the first Thai film to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was in 2001's Un Certain Regard program. At the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2000, it won the Dragons & Tigers Award for best new director. Other awards include best art direction at the Gijón International Film Festival in 2001 and a jury prize at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival. It was also screened at the 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival as part of a tribute to Sombat Metanee.

US distribution rights for the film were purchased by Miramax Films, which changed the ending and then shelved it indefinitely. In 2006, Magnolia Pictures acquired the US rights to the original version of the film, and gave it a limited theatrical run in US theaters in 2007 before releasing it on DVD.

===''Citizen Dog''===
thumb|250px|right|A scene from ''Citizen Dog'' shows the blending of old and new styles.
thumb|right|Wisit Sasanatieng works with a teddy bear on the set of his 2004 film, Citizen Dog.
Wisit's next project, 2004's ''Citizen Dog'', was a contemporary romantic comedy set in Bankgok that proved to be even more colourful than ''Tears of the Black Tiger''. Based on a novel written by Koynuch (Siripan Techajindawong), Wisit's long-time collaborative partner and wife, and narrated by compatriot filmmaker Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, ''Citizen Dog'' tells the tale of two rural Thai people who come to Bangkok to find work and fall in love. Critics have compared it to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's ''Amelie''.

Distribution rights outside Asia were purchased by Luc Besson's EuropaCorp, and it played at several film festivals, including the Berlin Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival and the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. The film screened commercially in France in 2006.

===''The Unseeable''===
In 2006, while he was working to develop some future projects, Wisit directed a low-budget Thai horror film for Five Star Production called ''The Unseeable'' ().

''The Unseeable'' marked a change for Wisit, who was restrained by budgetary concerns from the stylizations of his first two films. Additionally, ''The Unseeable'' was the first film that he directed but did not write, with the screenplay by Kongkiat Khomsiri, one of the "Ronin Team" credited with directing the hit Thai horror thriller, ''Art of the Devil 2''.

While the color palette was considerably muted, compared to ''Citizen Dog'', Wisit was still able to leave his nostalgic imprint on ''The Unseeble'' by making it an homage to films of the 1930s and the stars of that era, including Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.

Thai pop culture influences came from illustrator Hem Vejakorn, who wrote a series of 10-satang graphic novel ghost stories in the 1930s and '40s. The reference was so striking that the Barom Khru Foundation, which claims to supervise Hem's works, issued a statement warning Five Star Production to not violate the copyright of Hem's work. However, Wisit said the film was not an adaptation of any of Hem's works but was generally inspired by Hem's style.<ref>Rithdee, Kong. November 3, 2006. [http://www.bangkokpost.com/Realtime/03Nov2006_real01.php "Vintage affair"], ''Bangkok Post''.</ref><ref>Rithdee, Kong. November 3, 2006. [http://www.bangkokpost.com/Realtime/03Nov2006_real05.php "The carnival of souls"], ''Bangkok Post''.</ref>, which completed shooting in August 2006 and was released on November 2, 2006.

In addition to a release in Thailand, ''The Unseeable'' also had wide theatrical releases in Malaysia and Singapore, and screened a several film festivals, including the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film, 2007 Bangkok International Film Festival (ASEAN competition) and the Cinemanila International Film Festival.

Also in 2006, Pen-Ek became the third recipient of the Silpathorn Award for Filmmaking, an honor given to contemporary Thai artists by the Ministry of Culture's Office of Contemporary Art and Culture.

===''Norasinghavatar'', ''Red Eagle''===
In 2007, Wisit participated in the ''Short Films Project in Commemoration of the Celebration on the Auspicious Occasion of His Majesty the King's 80th Birthday Anniversary'', in which nine short films were made in honor of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Other directors participating the project included fellow Silpathorn Award winners Pen-Ek Ratanaruang and Apichatpong Weerasethakul and veteran filmmaker Bhandit Rittakol.<ref name = "Reigning">[http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/09/17/lifestyle/lifestyle_30049159.php Reigning light], ''The Nation (Thailand)''; retrieved 2007-11-19</ref>

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ภาพยนตร์ยอดเยี่ยม<br>
พ.ศ. 2543 - ''ฟ้าทะลายโจร'' (เข้าชิง)<br>
พ.ศ. 2549 - ''เปนชู้กับผี'' (เข้าชิง)<br>
ผู้กำกับภาพยนตร์ยอดเยี่ยม<br>
พ.ศ. 2543 - ''ฟ้าทะลายโจร'' (เข้าชิง)<br>
พ.ศ. 2549 - ''เปนชู้กับผี'' (เข้าชิง)<br>
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พ.ศ. 2549 - ''เปนชู้กับผี'' (เข้าชิง)<br>
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'''วิศิษฏ์ ศาสนเที่ยง''' (''Wisit Sasanatieng'') เกิดวันที่ 25 เมษายน, พ.ศ. 2507 ที่จังหวัดกรุงเทพ เป็นผู้กำกับภาพยนตร์และนักเขียนบทภาพยนตร์ คลื่นลูกใหม่ ยุคเดียวกับ เป็นเอก รัตนเรือง, นนทรีย์ นิมิบุตร,อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล และ จิระ มะลิกุล สไตล์การกำกับภาพยนตร์ของวิศิษฎ์จะเป็นแนวจินตนาการเหนือจริงและใช้สีสันฉูดฉาด และในหลายฉากที่เขากำกับมักจะยกย่องความคลาสสิคของหนังไทยในยุคเก่าอยู่เสมอๆ อย่างเช่นในเรื่อง ฟ้าทะลายโจร

== รางวัลภาพยนตร์ที่ได้รับ ==
* 2543 – Dragons and Tigers Awards, Vancouver International Film Festival, ฟ้าทะลายโจร 
* 2549 – Critics Prize, Deauville Asian Film Festival, หมานคร
* 2549 – Silver Prize for Most Groundbreaking Film, Bronze Prize for Best Asian Film, Fantasia Festival, หมานคร
* 2549 – Silpathorn Award for Filmmaking, Office of Contemporary Arts and Culture, Thailand กระทรวงวัฒนธรรม