Seng Mai Kinraw was born in Kachin State in 1987 and moved with her family to Yangon during her childhood. Her first documentary, The Social Game, was shown at Wathann Film Fest#2 in Yangon in 2012 where it received the New Vision Award; the film also won a Special Mention at ChopShots Film Festival for Southeast Asian documentary held in Jakarta in the same year. Made during her studies at YFS, Last Kiss helped her to gain a scholarship for the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany where she graduated with an hour-long documentary entitled To Be With You which was broadcast on the German channel SWR.