2018 Myanmar Film Festival of Los Angeles (11th Edition): September 15 & 16, 2018
The Network of Myanmar American Association, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Myanmar Film Festivals in the United States, invites you to the 2018 Myanmar (Burmese) Film Festival of Los Angeles (11th Edition). The festival will be held at Downtown Independent Theater (http://www.downtownindependent.com/), a state-of-the-art facility located in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles.
Festival Location: Downtown Independent Theater
251 S. Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Dates: September 15 & 16 | 2018
Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more information as the date approaches! Please come enjoy Myanmar (Burmese) Film Festival, Los Angeles. Hope to see you there!
SATURDAY │SEPTEMBER 15│2018:
Time: 6:00 pm – 9:30 pm (Invitation Only)
Opening Night VIP Reception & Festival Awards Ceremony
My Country, My Home (Zar Ti Myay) – Feature
Kyi Phyu Shin│130 mins│Myanmar/Japanese w/Japanese/English subtitle│2018
Myanmar, Japan
Starring: academy Yan Aung, Aung Ye Lin, academy Wutt Hmone Shwe Yi, Morisaki Win, Kawazoe Noa, Ogoshi Chiharu
Rays of Amour (A story from Naga Land) – Documentary
Sein Lyan Tun │20 mins│Myanmar w/English subtitle│2017
Myanmar
SUNDAY │SEPTEMBER 16│2018:
(Refreshment and Myanmar Snacks will be served)
General Public Admission: FREE
Book Lover – Short Fiction
Nay Linn Htun│14:45 mins│Myanmar w/English subtitle │2016
Myanmar
Time: 1:15 pm
Director: Nay Lin Htun
Producer: Khin Warso
Production Company: Yangon Film School
Screenwriter: Thiha Soe
Cinematographer: Sai Naw Kham
Editor: Sai Nyi Nyi
Laborer Naing Oo has a passion for books and reading. When his roof starts leaking, he struggles to raise the money to protect his prized collection of encyclopedias. Will he accept the help of bossy landlady Ma Cho?
Rays of Amour (A story from Naga Land) – Documentary
Sein Lyan Tun │20 mins│Myanmar w/English subtitle│2017
Myanmar
Time: 1:30 pm
Director: Sein Lyan Tun
Producers: Sein Lyan & Mya Thandar Kyaw
Production Company: PS Films Production
Cinematographer: Phyo Nge
Editor: Sai Naw Kham
A young girl gets an offer, her position as a midwife at Matawri village, at the foothill of Mount Saramati, in eastern NAGA Land, North Western of Myanmar. She was married to a MAKURY young man, and gets a child. All her kindness and care spreads over the village as a midwife, and devotes her life to her own family with sacrificed love and strong attachment.
Monk Politics – Documentary
Kay Lie Mastenbroek │55 mins│Myanmar w/English subtitle │2017
Myanmar, Netherlands
Time: 1:50 pm
Director & Producer: Kay Lie Mastenbroek
Production Company: Electrical Films
Screenwriter: Kay Lie Mastenbroek
Cinematographer: Gojko Mitic
Editor: Kay Lie Mastenbroek
Documentary about the new relation between the monk community and the NLD government. How do the monks with the new more or less democratic society, and how do they deal with their behavior during the military rule?
My Country, My Home (Zar Ti Myay) – Feature
Kyi Phyu Shin│130 mins│Myanmar/Japanese w/Japanese/English subtitle│2018
Myanmar, Japan
Time: 2:50 pm
Director: Kyi Phyu Shin
Producers: Shwe Than Lwin Media Film Production & Japan International Broadcasting (JIB)
Screenwriter: Kyi Phyu Shin
Cinematographer: Maung Maung Tha Myint
Editor: No No Aung
Music: Okka Oo Tha
Production Company: Red Radiance Co.,Ltd
Nan is a high school girl who was born and raised in Tokyo but whose family comes from Myanmar. She thinks of herself as Japanese but when Nan finds out that her father is planning on returning to his home and taking her with him, she finds out his history, how he took part in Myanmar’s democratization campaign 30 years ago and immigrated to Japan as a refugee. His heart has always been with his mother country but for Nan, Japan is home.
Sittwe/Heal – Short Documentary
Jeanne Hallacy│20 mins│Bama/Rakhine/Bengali w/English subtitle │2017
Myanmar, USA
Time: 5:15 pm
Director: Jeanne Hallacy
Producer: Smile Education and Development Foundation, Yangon
Cinematographer: Sai Kyaw Khaing
Editor: Elizabeth Finlayson
Sittwe is a short documentary about two teenagers affected by conflict in Burma’s Rakhine state. Phyu Phyu Than, a Rohingya Muslim girl and Aung San Myint, a Buddhist were both displaced by communal violence in 2012. Interviews filmed over two years explore their ideas about each other’s communities, their aspirations for education and the possibility of reconciliation.
The film gives voice to youth from two sides of a segregated community to create space for facilitated discussions about peace building in Rakhine state.
Insomniacs – Short Subject
M. Noe│7 mins│Myanmar w/English subtitle│2017
Myanmar
Time: 5:40 pm
Director: M. Noe
Producer: Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi
Screenwriter: M. Noe
Cinematographer: Chan Thar
Music: Khine Mye Thar
Editor: Chan Thar
A man whose dreams prophesied that he’d one day meet his true love betrays his girlfriend when he meets a Chinese tourist in the place he dreamed about. All three of them are suffering from insomnia and their fates will intertwine
Film Festival Information:
NetMAA Office: (626) 537 9990
Email: myanmarfilmfestival@netmaa.org
The Myanmar Film Festival of Los Angeles is supported, in part, by the California Arts Council, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs.
