Cho Pyone is Shan-Chinese and grew up in Taunggyi in Shan State. After graduating in Public Policy from Yangon’s Dagon University and taking a course in Chinese at the University of Foreign Languages, she started up her own designer fashion business in 2003. Cho Pyone has long been interested in art and photography as well as environmental issues; she sees documentary as a way of alerting audiences to issues that affect their lives. Made during an Art of Documentary Filmmaking course at YFS in 2012, 62, Pansodan Road was her first documentary.