Anocha teaches a graduate school programme, but her alter ego is as an award-winning, experimental film director and producer. She founded the independent film production company, 'Electric Eel Films', as well as Purin Pictures, a film fund that supports under-represented Southeast Asian filmmakers. Her work Graceland (2006) became the first Thai short film to be selected at the Cannes Film Festival. Taking joint pride of place is her second feature film, By The Time It Gets Dark (Dao Khanong), 2017, with her 2-year-old daughter. In 2017 she was the first woman to win the Best Director award from the Thailand National Film Association, followed by the 2019 Prince Claus award for "for pioneering a mode of intellectual feminist filmmaking, courageously and convincingly challenging hegemonic practices and established conventions, both in filmmaking and in society". In 2020, she was a recipient of the Silpathorn Award. She is working on the script of her next feature film, with plans for her first documentary. The novel that impacted her since her teens was Pheesart (Ghosts) by Seni Saowaphong since it shed light on class division and social inequality in Thailand, issues that she is equally passionate about.