INDEPENDENT

YAI NIN | ยายนิล

DOCUMENTARY

Starring - Ninlawan Pinyo | Director / Editor - Champ Ensminger | Executive Producers - Styles Upon Styles, Gerald Ensminger, Sr. | Producers - Michael Peak, Kristy Peak, Michele Choy, Alec Ansusinha | Director of Photography - Liam Morgan | 2nd Assistant Camera - Theppharat Thiwthong | Audio Engineer - Alex Boyesen | Audio Grip - Ed Sheffield | Still Photography - Jittrapon Kaicome | Interview & Translation - Waraporn Ensminger | Animation - Carl Nelson, Juan Carlos Arenas | VFX Compositing - Rogelio Salinas | Colorist - Joel Voelker | Sound Design / Audio Mix - Jason Alberts | Original Score - Satta Rojanagatanyoo | Music Supervisor - Nargis Sheerazie | Production Company - VS Service | Post-Production Company - World Famous Inc.

YAI NIN is a documentary short film about a Thai businesswoman and family matriarch, Ninlawan Pinyo - the director Champ Ensminger’s ‘yai,’ or grandmother. She is the proprietor of a brand of Thai sausage made in Chiang Mai, and has lived above her factory her entire life. The film depicts Nin at her home in Chiang Mai, watching over her factory while interacting with her family in America through technology. While her relationship with her children - all now American with their own kids - is strained by distance, she takes on the role of mother figure for the workers and caretakers that live and work around her.