May Htoo Choo was born in 1982 and studied at the National University of Arts and Culture, majoring in music. After working for the National Symphony Orchestra as a violinist and as a music teacher at DoReMi Nursery school, she enrolled at YFS in 2007 and was cinematographer on the documentary A Piece of Eden. Choices marked her debut as a director. In 2017, she was co-creator of an animated documentary about domestic violence that scored almost a million views on social media. May Htoo Cho continues to work regularly as a director or editor on various films commissioned by the School’s development partners including Myanmar Midwife – One Year Later, Fields of Dreams and Now I Can Read as well student works such as the short drama Book Lover; Cherry Thein’s moving portrait of abandoned wives Mother’s Burden, and Nyan Lynn Aung’s Living with Elephants.