"The Maw Naing was born in 1971 in Myanmar. He is a poet, installation artist, and filmmaker. He studied filmmaking at the Yangon Film School in 2005 and at the FAMU Film School in Prague in 2008. One of his first short films, Again and Again, is based on one of his poems and won the Special Mention Prize at the Zebra Poetry IFF in Berlin in 2008. His other short film, Between the Pages (2010), has been part of the permanent collection at the Fukuoka Art Museum in Japan since 2017. His co-directed documentary, Nargis: When Time Stopped Breathing, was screened at CPH:DOX and IDFA. His debut feature film, The Monk, premiered at Karlovy Vary FF in 2014, won three prizes, and was screened fifty times at international film festivals: he became the first Myanmar filmmaker in almost fifty years to present a feature at an international festival. The Maw Naing is currently working on his third feature, Aung Who Wanted to Be Aung and Then Wanted to Be a Nun."