The Maramagyi people of Rakhine State in Myanmar
Synopsis
The Maramagyi are a Buddhist ethnic group who came to Myanmar's Rakhine State from Bangladesh almost two centuries ago. In this portrait of a Maramagyi couple, the filmmaker, who comes from Rakhine herself, touches on some of the challenges facing this little-known people as well as the sectarian tensions that exist in this conflicted State
Credits
Director: Mim
Cinematographer/Editor: May Htoo Choo
Sound Recordist: San Kyaw Htun
Editing Mentor: Tuula Mehtonen
Category
Documentary, Family Life, Society, Ethnic Diversity, Religion
Technical Details
Duration: 18‘0‘‘
Format: 16:9 anamorphic
Subtitles: English
System: PAL
Copyright
Yangon Film School
Director's Biography
Mim comes from Minbya in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. A student of English in University of Distance Education, she was admitted to Yangon Film School in 2014 where she directed her first documentary, The Bus Conductor about one of Yangon’s first female bus conductors during the School’s flagship course The Art of Documentary Filmmaking. This film screened at Watersprite Festival at the University of Cambridge in the UK in 2016. Mim has since completed a YFS course in participatory video with a view to taking part in the School’s Travelling Cinema project. Made in 2015, Life As We Know It, about the Maramagyi ethnic group from her native Rakhine, marks her second documentary.
Director's Filmography
2016
Life as we know it
Director
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