Aung Phyoe

Aung Phyoe

Nascimento : 1989-09-24, Pakokku, Myanmar

História

Aung Phyoe is a writer, director and film editor. He was born in Pakokku, at Upper Myanmar. He is a B.Eng graduate from Nanyang Technological University Singapore, where he developed a strong interest in cinema entering the cinema club at the university. He also began to take film classes and attend screenings at the Film Society in Singapore, which reinforced his passion for cinema. Later, he earned a Diploma in Editing from Mumbai-based film school, Whistling Woods International. His first short film “Seasonal Rain” was screened for Open Doors Screening at 71st Locarno Film Festival and he edited a feature film “Murder on the Road to Kathmandu” (2018). In 2018, he participated the Autumn Meeting’s Director Workshop mentored by Tran Anh Hung. His feature film project "Fruit Gathering” won the Main Jury Prize at Myanmar Script Fund and the Autumn Meeting Grand Prix in Vietnam. His second short film “Cobalt Blue” was selected to Pardi di Domani - International Competition at 72nd Locarno Film Festival, which became the first Myanmar short film to be selected for competition. In 2018, he co-founded “3-ACT Cinema Magazine”, which promotes film education and national cinematic heritage and is actively involved in the Myanmar Independent film scene.

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Aung Phyoe

Filmes

Evening Clouds
Evening Clouds
Screenplay
Out of work and forced to marry a man she dislikes, young San Kyi plans to run away with her best friend, but complications unfold.
Evening Clouds
Evening Clouds
Director
Out of work and forced to marry a man she dislikes, young San Kyi plans to run away with her best friend, but complications unfold.
Cobalt Blue
Cobalt Blue
Writer
Yangon, 1998. A boy and his mother are waiting for the return of the father, a civil servant, to move out another town at Upper Burma. On the last evening the boy tries to understand the complexities of relationships.
Cobalt Blue
Cobalt Blue
Director
Yangon, 1998. A boy and his mother are waiting for the return of the father, a civil servant, to move out another town at Upper Burma. On the last evening the boy tries to understand the complexities of relationships.
Seasonal Rain
Seasonal Rain
Director
Since she enters her early adulthood, everything around Aye Aye seems to be falling apart. She starts to see things differently, at the same time she is being treated very differently even by her own parents. She has to face the stress of her desires, parental expectations, the need to find her place in repressive society. Aye Aye grew up with her distant cousin, Tin Swe since she was a child. Even their relationship starts changing the equilibrium. Aye Aye feels certain affection towards Tin Swe, who has been her close companion. Tin Swe persuaded her and they secretly fall in love. Through this experience, Aye Aye starts seeing herself as a woman, and finds satisfaction on doing something at the back of her parents. Their faith is about to be tested, by an encounter with a sudden rain while they are watching a movie at a cinema hall. Aye Aye has to face the reality of life, and the pain of her realization which is the uncertainty of her own future.