Claim: Aditya Assarat is an independent filmmaker from Thailand who left home at fifteen to study film at an American college and later won the International Film Festival Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Award.
Evidence: Aditya Assarat (Thai: อาทิตย์ อัสสรัตน์, born 1972) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, producer and cinematographer. He left Thailand at the age of 15 to be educated in the United States. He studied history at New York University, and it was during that time that he became interested in filmmaking. In 2003, Aditya won the Hubert Bals Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and was invited to take part in the Pusan Promotional Plan.