Yangon-born Aung Ko Ko was a student on the School’s very first intake in 2005 and displayed a strong cinematic eye from the start, working as cinematographer on Peace of Mind. His first work as a director was the sensitive portrait of a young Myanmar kickboxer Into the Ring which won him a Heinrich Boell Foundation Documentary Award in 2007. He has since worked as director Stigmatize This! or cinematographer on many productions, notably providing the exquisite camerawork on fellow-student Kyaw Myo Lwin’s award-winning Tyres and the anthology film Yangon by Night.