About the director
Lin Htet Aung is a self-taught filmmaker and time based media artist based in Myanmar. In his earlier days, he wrote avant-garde poems and published underground poetry books. He started making short films in 2017. In 2018 and 2019, he won Best Film Awards with Silence! and Shower at 1 AM at University Students’ Film Festival, respectively. In 2020, his experimental short film Estate won Silver Screen Award – Best Director in Southeast Asian Short Film Competition at 31st Singapore International Film Festival (2020) and Best Creative Sound Award in Wathann Competition at 10th Wathann Film Festival (2020). In 2021, his short film project Once Upon A Time There Was A Mom won the Southeast Asian Short Film (SEA-SHORTS) Grant provided by Singapore International Film Festival. His latest short film Seeking Wombs For Rebirths and Me and My Country Pornography have been selected in International Online Competition and International On-Site Competition at 68th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2022), respectively.