The Thai Film Archive launched a series of pocketbooks about contemporary Thai directors in 2013. The first in this ชั้นครู series was
a book about Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and the third focussed on Pen-ek Ratanaruang. เป็นเอก รัตนเรือง
: One Stand-up Filmmaker, published in 2014, includes a filmography of Pen-ek's feature-length and short films.