Synopsis
Devotees of the centuries-old Ananda pagoda festival in Bagan wouldn't miss this annual event for anything. A deeply felt observation of rural festival goers as they spend four days relaxing, browsing, shopping and making donations.
Director's Biography
Born in 1973, Shin Daewe began her film career as an assistant producer at the Yangon firm AV Media. She joined YFS in 2006 where she attended several courses and created a number of NGO-commissioned films for the School’s production arm, including the award-winning film A Better Future about child-centred teaching, An Uninvited Guest about tuberculosis treatments and Beyond the Tsunami (for Metta Development Foundation). Her own copious documentary projects include The Robe, On Holiday and a lively portrait of the Burmese painter Rahula, An Untitled Life, which has screened to acclaim at numerous film festivals around the world, as has Now I am Thirteen, about a young girl living in Myanmar’s dry zone. Her 2013 work about refugee camps in Kachin, Take Me Home, won Best Documentary Award at the 2013 Wathann Film Festival.
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