Of time and Myanmar’s legendary city
Synopsis
The filmmaker looks back fondly on her childhood memories of Myanmar’s second largest city and contemplates how this legendary place is beginning to change as a result of the country’s rapid transition.
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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