Shin Thandar
Myanmar

Shin Thandar (born in 1991) is from Sittwe in Rakhine State in northwest Myanmar.  She studied English at Yangon’s University of Foreign Languages and then joined YFS in 2018 to study documentary courses for two years. She was a creative team member behind both films’Our Town’ and ‘Midtown Yangon’. Her first documentary, ‘Lost Boy’ was shown at a number of international film festivals around the world.  Made in her second year at YFS, ‘Worlds Apart’ won a Goethe-Institut Ruby Documentary Award in 2019. She is currently working on her graduation project, set in Rakhine. Alongside her studies, she uses her filmmaking skills as a development worker. Her recent documentary as a director, ‘I Found My Yellow’ is about two women and one cat who are learning to be a family unit, accepting each other’s insecurities in the face of the current LGBTQIA+ repression in Myanmar.