Vannaphone Sitthirath is a media consultant, film producer, and journalist, working in Laos. She is devoted to filmmaking and performing arts and is the cofounder Lao New Wave Cinema Production.

She also serves as media advisor to ProCEEd (Promotion of Climate-related Environmental Education), which produces educational materials to raise awareness of environmental issues affecting Lao people.

Vannaphone’s mission is to develop socially responsible documentaries of life in her country and the region, which can convey messages about social, health, and environmental issues.

She produced a magazine program for Laos national TV that spotlighted cross-border issues such as human trafficking and HIV/AIDS. She has had films included in a number of film festivals and training workshops hosted by NGOs and UN agencies. Her documentary film "So Close" won a special prize at the 2008 International Women's Film Festival in the Philippines.