Bio

Mila Aung‐Thwin is co-founder of the Montreal documentary production company EyeSteelFilm. He’s produced over 40 feature documentaries including Last Train Home (winner of 2 Emmy Awards); Up the Yangtze (Independent Spirit Award Nominee; Golden Horse Award winner); Rip: A Remix Manifesto (Webby Award Honoree; IDFA audience choice prize winner). He directed, produced, and edited Let There Be Light (Big Sky Film Fest’s Artistic Vision award winner). In 2020, he won the Special Jury Award for editing at the Sundance Film festival for Softie, directed by Sam Soko. For five years, he served as President of RIDM, and has served on the juries of the Sundance Film Festival, the International Emmy Awards, and the New Zealand Screen Awards. He frequently mentors and gives documentary storytelling seminars to up and coming filmmakers – recent workshops include Guangzhou, China; Durban, South Africa; and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Mila is Burmese-Canadian and is committed to the development of filmmaking talent from Southeast Asia, and has taught documentary courses at the Human Rights Human Dignity Film Institute and the Yangon Film School.  In 2016 he directed The Vote (NYFF 2016) with Van Royko and the film students of The HRHD Institute. Currently, he is producing and editing Midwives by director Hnin Ei Hlaing.

Intro

I would like to meet new potential collaborators– filmmakers, cinematographers, editors, sound people, researchers.

Reel/Clips

ESF_WEBLOOP_V4 from EyeSteelFilm on Vimeo.