Synopsis
Daw Ni Lang is a Chin national who lives in Yangon with her Chin husband and youngest son. She bustles around her home, laughs with friends at a local café and fondly remembers her early married life in Chin State. And yet underneath her cheerful demeanour lies a deep sense of loss at having had to leave her Chin homeland and part from four of her five children – all whom have left Myanmar to pursue lives abroad. A familiar story about migration, told in a new context.
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Credits
Director: Zaw Naing Oo
Camera: Tun Lynn
Sound: Salai Tial Awi
Editor Mentor: Melanie Sandford
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Technical Details
Duration: 12‘53‘‘
4:3 Letterbox
DVD PAL
English Subtitles
2012
Copyright
Yangon Film School
Director's Biography
Myanmar computer arts graduate Zaw Naing Oo (born in 1979) had his first brush with film at Myanmar production outfit Forever Group. He attended Yangon Film School from 2011 to 2013 where he directed and/or edited several short documentaries and fiction films including Soe Moe Aung’s To School and A Step Forward (dir. Sann Maw Aung). His heartfelt portrait of a disparate Chin family in Empty Nest screened at a number of international festivals and earned him Best Short Student Documentary award in Palm Springs, USA in 2013. Shot in the stunning Moe Yun Gyi lakeland sanctuary, his second film as a director, Lady of the Lake, which he also edited, picked up two Special Mention Awards and one cinematography award at international festivals.
Awards & Nominations
June, 2013
Screenings
Director's Filmography
Director/Editor
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