Feature documentary

Myanmar Diaries

Made in secret after the military coup of February 2021 by an anonymous collective of Myanmar filmmakers. Short personal stories meet citizen-journalism footage from the first year of the coup.

RoleCo-Director
Length70 min
PremiereBerlinale 2022
Film website ↗ Screener on request

Awards

  • Berlinale Documentary AwardBerlinale 2022
  • Amnesty International Film AwardBerlinale 2022
  • Panorama Audience Award, 3rd placeBerlinale 2022
  • HRW Tony Elliot Impact AwardLondon 2022
  • Best Director AwardOne World 2022

Documentaries & short films

Earlier films

Still from Across

Feature documentary · 2015

Across (Trailer)

Co-filmmaker · Václav Havel Library Award, Human Rights Human Dignity Film Festival

Still from Enter

Short film · 2014

Enter

Director · Best Picture, Hantharwady U Win Tin Award

Still from No Music is an Island

Documentary · 2015

No Music is an Island

Co-filmmaker

Still from Bruises and Love

Short film · 2017

Bruises and Love

Director · Producer

Still from Third Floor on the Left

Feature film · 2019

Third Floor on the Left (Teaser)

Director

Still from Youth Standing Up for Human Rights

Campaign · UNIC Yangon · 2019

Youth Standing Up for Human Rights

Producer · Editor · Human Rights Day 2019

More on my YouTube channel ↗

Brand & social video · Munich

Short-form and brand films

Still from the Premio München brand film

Brand film · Premio München

Reifen sind das einzige Bindeglied zwischen Auto und Asphalt

Camera · Edit

Reel: Berlin just got attacked

Reel · Eagle PMX

News-style explainer on a cyber attack in Berlin

Reel: Warum knacken deine Gelenke

Reel · Formula Dr. Müller-Wohlfahrt

Social campaign, sports supplements

Reel for Premio München at a race track

Reel · Premio München

Social campaign, race-track day

NGO, UN & client work

Campaigns and public-awareness videos

UNIC Yangon, 2019–2021. Human rights and public-awareness campaigns for the United Nations Information Centre: youth activism, the COVID-19 response, child protection.

Miracle Post Media, Yangon, 2014–2019. Creative Director. TV commercials, corporate films and training videos.

UNICUNICEFUNDPWWFUSAIDFAFICSAppleBMWTelenor
Kaung Sint Tha on set

About

Kaung Sint Tha

Filmmaker and video editor from Myanmar, based in Germany since 2022.

More than 20 documentaries and short films over twelve years, most of them on human rights and social issues. Screenings at the Berlinale, One World Prague and the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival in Yangon.

Five years as Creative Director in Yangon's commercial industry. Campaigns for the United Nations Information Centre. Since 2023, documentary, campaign and short-form editing in Munich.

Burmese · English · German

Contact

Open to documentary, NGO and editing work.

Based near Munich. Open to relocate and to remote work.

kaungsinttha@gmail.com Download CV LinkedIn ↗