Thae Zar Chi Khaing (born in 1991) comes from Sittwe in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. After graduating with a degree in geology, she began working as a video journalist. She attended Yangon Film School from 2016 to 2018 during which time she worked on a large number of projects as either cinematographer and/or editor (e.g. Eim Chan Thar’s Tofu Nights, Shin Thandar’s Worlds Apart and Cherry Thein’s Mother’s Burden. Having attended a YFS course in ‘participatory video’, Thae Zar Chi Khaing joined a YFS Travelling Cinema crew to Inle Lake in 2017 to help a local community create two short films about environmental pollution. She was also co-animator on one of the trio of films in the series End Violence Against Women! produced during the School’s first animation course in 2017. The films reached an audience of almost 1m on social media and on national television. Seeds of Sadness, which she shot, directed and edited in her second year at YFS, was joint-winner of the 2017 Goethe Institut Ruby Documentary Award.