My Thai Bride wins at Hot Docs

An Australian documentary maker has won an award at Toronto’s Hot Docs documentary festival.

Australian film-maker David Tucker’s documentary My Thai Bride won best mid-length documentary at the festival, one of the most prestigious documentary festivals in the world, and North America’s largest festival.

The documentary, about the demise of 46-year old Welshman Ted’s marriage to a poor Thai bar girl.

On the film, Hot Docs jury said: “My Thai Bride is a film that takes the story of an unlikely couple and through subtle analysis extends their human dramas into a moving examination of political, cultural and economic power dynamics. It is a film that destabilises its viewer’s empathy through a nuanced and even-handed portrayal of charged, contradictory terrain, and reframes who exactly is the conqueror and conquered.”