Aye Nilar Kyaw is Karen (Kayin) and a Christian. She took up a distance learning degree in law at West Yangon University in 2012 and worked in various jobs, also volunteering for NGO Vision Trust Myanmar, before enrolling at YFS in 2016 where she worked on several films as editor, cinematographer and sound designer (Through Thick and Thin). Child of the Revolution, which received the 2017 Goethe Institut Myanmar Jade Documentary Award, was her first film as both director and cinematographer. Made with support from YFS, her 2023 film Searching for Frogs takes us to a village inhabited by the Maw Nway Bwar who are the last people in Myanmar to practice rituals around the ‘frog drum’.