Synopsis
Thakin Htein Win’s granddaughter reminisces about the old wooden house where she grew up – a house which was once a meeting place for some of the architects of Burma’s independence movement, in which her grandfather played a pivotal role.
Director's Biography
Born of a Burmese publisher father and a Shan mother in 1991, young English graduate Shunn Lei Swe Yee has been active in a number of youth and development networks. A passionate feminist and co-founder of the ‘Rainfall Gender Study Group’, she claims that one of the reasons she joined Yangon Film School was to learn how to make films that will give a stronger voice to women in Myanmar. Having trained in participatory video at YFS in 2014, she is now a regular member of YFS Travelling Cinema crews facilitating workshops in communities in Kachin and Chin. The School Uniform marks her debut as a director of fiction.
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