Synopsis
Labourer Naing Oo has a passion for books and reading. When his roof starts leaking, he struggles to raise the money to protect his prized collection of encyclopaedias. Will he accept the help of bossy landlady Ma Cho? Book Lover is a short fiction film inspired by a real-life story. It was filmed with non-professional actors in Hmawbi and Yangon.
Credits
Director: Nay Linn Htun
Producer: Khin Warso
Screenwriter: Thiha Soe
Camera: Sai Naw Kham
Sound: Han Linn Thwin, Mi Mi Lwin
Editor: Say Nyi Nyi
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Technical Details
Duration: 14‘45‘‘
Format: 16:9 anamorphic
System: PAL
Subtitles: English 2017
Copyright
Yangon Film School
Director's Biography
Nay Lynn Htun is a freelance videographer from Kant Balu Township in Sagaing Region in upper Myanmar. Having turned his hand to documentary filmmaking in 2012, he screened his first film, Moonshine over Flower School at the Art of Freedom Festival in 2013. Since enrolling at Yangon Film School in 2014 he has taken on the role of cinematographer on a number of documentaries including fellow student Ngwe Ngwe Khine’s The Bus Conductor and Sai Naw Kham’s 32 Souls. Since making his own second year project Made in Mandalay, which he shot and directed, he has also directed a short drama, Book Lover. Made during the School’s 2015 ‘True Fictions’ course, this film received Best Actress Award at the 2016 Wathann Film Festival.
Awards & Nominations
October, 2016
Screenings
Director's Filmography
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Screenwriter Thiha Soe has already made his name in Myanmar’s mainstream film and television industry. The writer of a string of commercial feature films, including Let-pan which won several Myanmar Academy Awards in 2012, Book Lover marks his first experience writing a 'true fictions' story based on the lives of ordinary working people in Myanmar.
Book Lover is Khin Warso’s first outing as a producer. A journalism graduate from Mawlamyine in Myanmar’s Mon State, she first worked as a reporter for an IT journal in Yangon before joining YFS in 2014. Her second-year documentary project Slate was joint winner of the 2015 Goethe-Institut Ruby Documentary Award. She is currently developing Why We Left, a YFS Fellowship documentary on the topic of migration.
