Mi Mi Lwin (born in 1992) comes from Nyaung Oo Township in Mandalay Division in Myanmar’s central dry zone. Her parents are toddy palm farmers. After graduating from Yezin Agricultural University, she moved to Yangon where she took up an internship at the independent non-profit organisation Enlightened Myanmar Research (EMR). Since being accepted into Yangon Film School in 2014, she has worked on numerous films in various capacities, including on the soundtrack for The Bus Conductor, and has edited many a YFS film (The Music Lover, The Gatekeeper, The Father I Knew, Opium Farmer, Midtown Yangon, Shifting Sands) as well as films about YFS courses. For her second-year directing project Sugar & Spice, she chose to portray the lives of her own hard-working parents. The resulting film, of which she was also editor, has travelled to dozens of film festivals at home and abroad and won a string of awards including three at the Japanese ShortShorts Film Festival.