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The Crocodile Creek (2015)

The Crocodile Creek

March, 2016
Climate Change Film Festival
BEST MYANMAR PRODUCTION AWARD
Yangon, Myanmar

Synopsis

As the Burmese legend unfolds of the giant crocodile Nga Moe Yeik – the namesake of this beautiful if eerie-looking creek – some of the people who use this branch of the Yangon River voice their modern-day environmental concerns about one of the city’s iconic waterways.

Director's Biography

Sai Naw Kham grew up in Tangyan Township in Myanmar’s northern Shan State. Moving to Yangon in 2007, he first studied chemistry and worked as an editor for Charr Music Production. He made his first foray into directing in 2014 during his first year at Yangon Film School with The Crocodile Creek, a short film which merged myth and memory to explore present-day environmental issues in Myanmar’s Yangon River. For 32 Souls (YFS, 2015), he travelled to his native Shan to portray one woman’s memories in this war-torn part of Myanmar. Following its international premiere at DOK Leipzig in 2016, this film went on to screen to acclaim at festivals in Korea and Nepal. In 2015, he was cinematographer on the YFS short fiction film, Book Lover, and in 2020 he directed The Forgotten Voices of the Mekong as part of an anthology of short films entitled ‘Mekong 2030’. Song of Souls is his first feature-length documentary and secured a world premiere at the prestigious Sheffield DocFest in 2023.

Awards & Nominations

March, 2016
Climate Change Film Festival
BEST MYANMAR PRODUCTION AWARD
Yangon, Myanmar
November, 2015
Singapore International Film Festival
BEST SOUTHEAST ASIAN FILM
Singapore

Screenings

August, 2018
Savonlinna International Nature Film Festival
Savonlinna, Finland
September, 2016
SremFilm Festival, International Documentary Festival of Tourism and Ecology
Sremska Mitrovica Vojvodina, Serbia
March, 2016
Watersprite International Student Film Festival
Cambridge, England

Director's Filmography

2023
Song of Souls

Director

71‘0‘‘

2020
The Forgotten Voices of the Mekong

Director

17‘0‘‘

2020
No Real Body

Director

16‘10‘‘

2018

Animation and Audio Interviews

5‘45‘‘

2017

Cinematographer

14‘45‘‘

2015
The Crocodile Creek

Director

17‘49‘‘

2015

Director/Editor

25‘30‘‘

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