Thu Thu Shein is a filmmaker and producer from Third Floor Film production, based in Yangon. She began her career as a video editor before discovering her passion for documentary during the first Yangon Film School filmmaking workshop in 2005, where she was cinematographer on A Day with Aye Nan Lin (dir: Eh Mwee). Her own directorial debut, which she also edited, was A Million Threads, about the women contestants in a weaving competition, which won the top award in the Heinrich Boell Foundation’s Documentary Film Competition in 2007. The film’s feminist-anthropological approach, contrapuntal editing and the poetry of its images have endured, ensuring that it continues to be programmed at film festivals, universities and museums around the world. After attending YFS, Thu Thu Shein took a Master’s degree in cinematography at the FAMU in Prague. In 2011, she and fellow YFS alumnus Thaiddhi co-founded Myanmar’s first film festival, Wathann, which soon became a key event and resource for independent filmmaking in Myanmar.