Award Winning Shorts Program 2
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Grand Prix, Asia International Competition Best Short Award/Governor of Tokyo Award
Sugar & Spice
Mi Mi Lwin/16:04/Myanmar/Documentary/2016
A lovingly filmed portrait of the filmmaker’s parents who eke out a living making ‘jaggery’ sweets from toddy palm syrup in Myanmar’s central dry zone.
Director : Mi Mi Lwin
Mi Mi Lwin 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 came to Yangon where she took up an internship at independent non-profit organisation Enlightened Myanmar Research (EMR). Since being accepted to Yangon Film School in 2014 she has worked on a number of films in various capacities.
Goethe-Institute Documentary Award 2015 (Myanmar)
Watersprite International Student Film Festival - Best Student Documentary Award (UK)
Watersprite International Student Film Festival - Best Student Documentary Award (UK)