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.