A member of the Lisu ethnic group, David Kyaw Thet Aung (born in 1985) was a freelance jewel broker from Mogok Township in Mandalay Division in Myanmar before he decided to try his hand at filmmaking. As a student of the School’s 2012 intake, he quickly demonstrated his skill as a cinematographer on My Grandfather’s House which screened at several international film festivals, and also on a commissioned work, Welcome to Lashio. He picked up a camera again in 2021 to film fellow-alumna Lin Hnin Aye’s atmospheric ethnographic portrait of a Lisu shaman – Sound of the Spirits. Precious was his debut as a director.