As a child from a poor farming family in a remote village in central Myanmar, 26-year-old Mi Mi Lwin never imagined she would one day win a grand prize as a film director in her own country, much less abroad.Her parents work on a toddy palm plantation in the Mandalay Region of central Myanmar, where her father climbs the trees to collect palm syrup and her mother uses it to make jiggery sweets to earn a living.While growing up, she and her two brothers used to help their parents with their work, when they were not attending the village's school where they were taught by Buddhist monks.But i…READ FULL ARTICLE
