May Myat Noe Aye was born in Yangon in 1995. She studied German and business management and worked as a researcher for Enlightened Myanmar before joining Yangon Film School in 2018. Since then, she has worked in various capacities on several of her peers’ films: from sound recordist and/or designer on Kachin Reporter (dir. Sein Yamone Htoo) and Going Home (dir. Chit Moe Pio), to editor on Shin Thandar’s award-winning short documentary Worlds Apart. Other collaborative projects include an animated documentary Beyond the Hatred based on a story from the book ‘Of Peaceful Days …’, as well as a short drama about the inhabitants of an apartment block in Midtown Yangon, which she also helped to mix. Her own journey into directing began with a lively portrait of the well-known Mandalay-based performer Wareru in Burmese Rapper. Ruby Hunters is her second documentary.