- Mila Aung-Thwin
-
Mila Aung-Thwin is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, producer and activist whose films deal with social justice.
He had a multi-disciplinary education in arts, journalism, and photography. In 1998, he met his fellow director/producer Daniel Cross and co-founded with him EyeSteelFilm specilaizing in making documentaries. He is the vice-president of the company.
Contents
Career
Aung-Thwin, an award-winning director made the films Chairman George on the stations CTV, BBC's Storyville and TV 2 (Denmark).[1] as a co-director to Daniel Cross. Another co-direction with Cross was Too Colourful for the League, Gemini-nominated TV documentary examining the struggle of blacks in ice hockey from the 1930s to the present day telling the story of black players' courage and determination to play in a white-dominated sport.
To his credit as sole director are the documentary Bone that follows Montreal's Snell Thouin Project with the extraordinary talents of Willy Tsao's Beijing Modern Dance Company, Music for a Blue Train, a documentary about the beauty and hardship of playing music for commuter traffic focussing on Montreal's subway system, The Métro, that has 59 designated spots for musicians to perform for the public and finally Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive co-directed with fellow EyeSteelFilm directors Daniel Cross, Brett Gaylor and the students of Inukjuak - Innalik School.
He served as cinematographer / producer on S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks in Traffic, a theatrically released film about a squeegee punk named Roach. He also produced RoachTrip as a follow-up to S.P.I.T.. As director, he won the Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Film Festival in 2006 and as producer, he won a Genie Award for Up the Yangtze in 2009. In 2008 he was executive producer for Antoine. In 2009 he produced RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (producer) and Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam.
Filmography
Director
- 2001: Too Colourful for the League
- 2005: Chairman George
- 2005: Bone
Producer
- 2001: S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks in Traffic (producer)
- 2005: Chairman George (co-producer)
- 2005: Bone (producer)
- 2007: The Colony (executive producer)
- 2007: Up the Yangtze (producer)
- 2008: Antoine (executive producer)
- 2009: RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (producer)
- 2009: Ali Shan (executive producer)
- 2009: Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam (producer)
- 2009: Last Train Home (producer)
Cinematographer
- 2001: S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks in Traffic
- 2005: Chairman George
- 2005: Bone
Editor
- 2005: Chairman George
- 2005: Bone
Awards
- In 2006, he won the Golden Sheaf Award at Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival for Chairman George alongside Daniel Cross
- In 2009, he won Genie Award for "Best Documentary" for Up the Yangtze jointly with Yung Chang, John Christou and Germaine Wong
See also
- EyeSteelFilm
References
External links
- Mila Aung-Thwin at the Internet Movie Database
- EyeSteelFilm Official web site
- Mila Aung-Thwin Biography page on NFB site
EyeSteelFilm Founders Daniel Cross • Mila Aung-ThwinDirectors Mila Aung-Thwin • Laura Bari • Richard Boyce • Yung Chang • Daniel Cross • Eric "Roach" Denis • Lixin Fan • Brett Gaylor • Mitchell Kezin • Omar Majeed • Halima OuardiriDocumentaries The Street: A Film with the Homeless (1997) • Too Colourful for the League (2001) • S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks in Traffic (2001) • Music for a Blue Train (2002) • Bone (2002) • RoachTrip (2003) • Inuuvunga: I Am Inuk, I Am Alive (2004) • Chairman George (2005) • Punk the Vote! (2006) • Up the Yangtze (2007) • RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (2008) • Antoine (2008) • Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam (2009) • Last Train Home (2009)Categories:- Living people
- Documentary film directors
- Canadian documentary filmmakers
- Canadian film directors
- Directors of Genie Award winners for Best Documentary Film
- People from Montreal
- Quebec film directors
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
