Mi Ni Ni Aung (born in 1993) lives on Bilu Island, a delta island of the Salween River in Mon State, Myanmar. In 2014, she graduated from Mawlamyine University with a major in Chemistry. She studied journalism at Burma News International (BNI) in 2014, created a photo story about children’s rights for the Yangon Photo Festival in 2015, and then worked in media organisations as a freelance researcher, reporter and video journalist before joining YFS in 2022. Dancing with the Spirits is her first film as a director.