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Mila Aung-Thwin is a
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maker, producer and
activist Activism (or Advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good. Forms of activism range fro ...
whose films deal with
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. He had a multi-disciplinary education in
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,
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, and
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. In 1998, he met his fellow director/producer Daniel Cross and co-founded with him
EyeSteelFilm EyeSteelFilm is a Montreal-based Canada, Canadian Film, cinema production company co-founded by Daniel Cross (filmmaker), Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin, dedicated to socially engaged cinema, bringing social and political change through cinematic ...
specializing in making documentaries. He is the vice-president of the company. He is a graduate of
Vanier College Vanier College ( French: ''Collège Vanier'') is an English-language public college located in the Saint-Laurent borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1970 as the second English-language public college of Quebec's public colle ...
and
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in 1998. He was an editor of the
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during his studies.


Career

Aung-Thwin, an award-winning director made the films Chairman George on the stations CTV,
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's Storyville and
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.Documentary Educational Resources (DER) site about broadcasting stations
/ref> 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 Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...
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 A bone is a Stiffness, rigid Organ (biology), organ that constitutes part of the skeleton in most vertebrate animals. Bones protect the various other organs of the body, produce red blood cell, red and white blood cells, store minerals, provid ...
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,
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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 Yorkton Film Festival (YFF) is an annual film festival held in late May in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. In 1947, the Yorkton Film Council (YFC) was founded and in 1950 the first international documentary film festival officially opened in we ...
in 2006 and as producer, he won a
Genie Award The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978; also known as the "Etrog Awards," for scu ...
for
Up the Yangtze ''Up the Yangtze'' is a 2007 documentary film directed by Chinese-Canadian director Yung Chang. The film focuses on people affected by the building of the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze river in Hubei, China. The theme of the film is the ...
in 2009. In 2008 he was executive producer for
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. In 2009 he produced RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (producer) and Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam.


Filmography


Director

*2001: '' Too Colourful for the League'' *2003: '' Music for a Blue Train'' *2005: '' Chairman George'' *2005: ''
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'' *2017: ''Let There Be Light'' (co-director with Van Royko)


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 ''Up the Yangtze'' is a 2007 documentary film directed by Chinese-Canadian director Yung Chang. The film focuses on people affected by the building of the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze river in Hubei, China. The theme of the film is the ...
'' (producer) () *2008: ''
Antoine Antoine is a French given name (from the Latin ''Antonius'' meaning 'highly praise-worthy') that is a variant of Danton, Titouan, D'Anton and Antonin. The name is used in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, West Greenland, Haiti, French Guiana ...
'' (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) aka ''Gui tu lie che'' / () *2010: '' The Frog Princes (executive producer) *2010: "Gambling Boys" (for ''
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'' on
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(CBC) - a TV series documentary) (executive producer) *2010: '' Mokhtar'' (producer) (short) *2011: ''
Inside Lara Roxx ''Inside Lara Roxx'' is a 2011 EyeSteelFilm Canadian documentary film by Canadian film director Mia Donovan. It covers the circumstances of a 21-year-old Canadian woman Lara Roxx who in the Spring of 2004, left her hometown Montreal heading to Los ...
'' (executive producer, producer) *2011: ''Fortunate Son'' (producer) *2012: '' China Heavyweight (executive producer) () *2016: '' I Am the Blues'' *2017: ''Let There Be Light'' (co-producer) *2022: ''
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''


Cinematographer

*2001: ''S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks in Traffic'' *2005: ''Chairman George'' *2005: ''Bone''


Editor

*2005: ''Chairman George'' *2005: ''Bone'' *2017: ''Let There Be Light'' (co-editor) *2018: '' Anote's Ark'' *2022: ''
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''


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 The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978; also known as the "Etrog Awards," for scu ...
for "Best Documentary" for ''
Up the Yangtze ''Up the Yangtze'' is a 2007 documentary film directed by Chinese-Canadian director Yung Chang. The film focuses on people affected by the building of the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze river in Hubei, China. The theme of the film is the ...
'' jointly with
Yung Chang Yung Chang is a Chinese Canadian film director and was part of the collective member directors of Canadian film production firm EyeSteelFilm. Chang is a graduate of Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal (BFA 99), the ...
, John Christou and Germaine Wong


See also

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EyeSteelFilm EyeSteelFilm is a Montreal-based Canada, Canadian Film, cinema production company co-founded by Daniel Cross (filmmaker), Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin, dedicated to socially engaged cinema, bringing social and political change through cinematic ...


References


External links

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EyeSteelFilm Official web siteMila Aung-Thwin Biography page on NFB site
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