Pyae Zaw Phyo

Place of birth:

Rangoon, Burma. [now Yangôn, Myanmar]:

Biography:

Pyae is an internationally award-winning filmmaker and producer from Myanmar. He began his filmmaking career in 2013 and has since created numerous short films, documentaries, and feature films. He is an alumnus of renowned international film workshops such as Produire au Sud (Nantes, France), the Locarno Film Festival (Locarno, Switzerland), FLY (Busan, Korea) and Talent Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan). His debut feature film, The Dark Cinema, became one of Myanmar’s hit films in 2019 and won the Best Horror Film award at the Diorama International Film Festival in New Delhi, India. The Dark Cinema also became the first Myanmar film screened in Central America at the Panama Horror Film Festival.