Born in 1973 Shin Daewe began her film career as an assistant producer at the Yangon firm AV Media. Since joining YFS in 2006 she has created a number of films for NGOs such as Pyoe Pin, PSI and Metta Development Foundation. Her own documentary projects include a lively portrait of the Burmese painter Rahula, An Untitled Life, which has screened to acclaim at numerous film festivals around the world, as has Now I am Thirteen, about a young girl living in Myanmar’s dry zone; her 2013 work about refugee camps in Kachin, Take Me Home, won Best Documentary Award at 2013 Wathann Film Festival. She is currently a recipient of a Yangon Film School Fellowship grant which she is using to research and develop a feature-length documentary Opium Dreams, about farmers who cultivate Myanmar’s most notorious crop in Shan State. Shin Daewe is currently a member of the Yangon Film School Student Committee and is also co-director of the School’s production arm, Yangon Film Services.