Editor and director Kyaw Myo Lwin began his career at Yangon Film School (YFS) in 2007. He has since worked as sound recordist and/or editor on many YFS and other productions, including a film about trauma healing after Cyclone Nargis called Hidden Wounds and the short documentary Insein Rhythm. Having premiered at Nyon in Switzerland, this wordless film soon became a festival favourite, as did his directorial debut Tyres – a sumptuously photographed black-and-white observation of a community of tyre recyclers in Yangon which premiered at IDFA in the Netherlands. Silent Talker was his second documentary as director.