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 7th Annual Myanmar (Burmese) Film Festival of Los Angeles. 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… Read More Now »
6th Annual Myanmar Film Festival of Los Angeles -MFFLA 2013 September 14-15, 2013, Los Angeles – USA (Held every year) Thank you for your interest in submitting your film to the 2013 Myanmar Film Festival of Los Angeles. Submissions are now open. The Myanmar Film Festival of Los Angeles promotes Myanmar arts and culture, bringing… Read More Now »
Daw Win Min Than, the first Myanmar actress to star in Hollywood film, grew up in Rangoon when Burma was part of the British Raj. She was the daughter of a government official. When the Japanese occupied Burma during World War II, the family fled to India. Until she was 14 years old, she attended a convent school, where she learned English.
In 1951, the family sent her to London, where she Marie Rambert’s dance school, but she quickly realized she was no dancer and soon returned to Burma, where she married the famous politician Bo Setkya (Thakin Aung Than), who was almost 20 years her senior.
“Burmese Butterfly,†a 13-minute short film, will screen during the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival at Victoria Theatre on June 21 at 7p.m.
Twenty-one-year-old hairdresser Phyo Lay looks back on a turbulent childhood and adolescence and describes how difficult it is to come out in Myanmar. A rare glimpse into the emergent gay community in this hitherto isolated country.
Burmese Butterfly – short film produced by the Yangon Film School in Myanmar
13 mins | Burmese w/English subtitle | 2011