Born in Yangon in 1970, Aung Nwai Htway studied law before taking a Forever Group course in editing and subsequently joining the NGO Population Services International (PSI) as an editor. Having joined Yangon Film School in 2006, in 2007 he tried his hand at directing for the first time with the short documentary A Piece of Eden about a young boy suffering from muscular dystrophy. He has since made numerous short documentaries and commercials for the development sector including a short film about a sex worker, Trying to Escape, and a documentary Escape from the Dead End in which a perspicacious Burmese cabin crew remembers how they successfully averted disaster during an emergency landing of their plane in 2012. Developed in cooperation with YFS, his 2012 documentary Behind the Screen is his most personal film, since it tells the painful story of his parents’ divorce, both of whom were Burmese film stars in the 1960s and 70s. This moving film won awards at Wathann Filmfest in Yangon in 2012 and at Salaya International Documentary Film Festival in Thailand in 2014; it also screened to acclaim at the prestigious International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam in 2013. He is currently working on the edit of Greener Pastures, a documentary about Myanmar refugees in northern Thailand, directed by fellow YFS alumnus’ Tin Win Naing.