Born in Kyaukphyu in Rakhine State in 1985, Hnin Ei Hlaing began her film career working as an editor for MRTV4. Joining the second YFS cohort in 2006, she soon became something of an all-rounder, working as a regular sound recordist and/or editor on many YFS productions including An Untitled Life, The Change Maker and A Bright Future. Her own directorial debut Burmese Butterfly, about a young transgender person in Myanmar, screened at over 20 film festivals around the world. This was followed by The Potter’s Song about a community of potters in Twante near Yangon, and a ground-breaking exploration of menstrual mood swings, Period@Period. Filmed over six years in conflicted Rakhine State, her first feature-length documentary Midwives chronicles the unusual friendship between two birth attendants – one Buddhist-Rakhine, the other Muslim-Rohingya. The film has screened at major festivals and picked up awards at Sundance and in the Czech Republic, among others.