Entertainment

Pop singer Ni Ni Khin Zaw has released a music video for her song “Ma Lo Chin Bu….Sit” (I Don’t Want War) from her soon-to-be-released album “A Ni Yaung” (Red) on YouTube last Friday.

Since entering the Eain Mat Sone Yar (Yar Thet Pan) singing competition, Aung Htet quickly rose to popularity for his talent in rearranging songs under various themes of the competition. After coming a long way, he finally reached his dream of becoming a singer after being named the winner on July 5.

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Singapore-based Stereo Image Studios will team up with a domestic company to offer post-production services for Myanmar’s feature films.

The services offered by Stereo Image include composing film themes, recording background sound, making sound design, recording sound and dialogue on location, dubbing and access to copyrighted songs and music from its library.

This year has seen the number of feature films in production double with many more in the preparation phase to meet the rising market and reforms to the industry that will take effect next year.

Well-known hip hop singer Yè Lay will release his seventh album titled “Nauk Ta Khauk” (“Once More”) on July 12 after a two-year hiatus. 

Famous actors Nay Toe, Myint Myat, Yè Aung, and Wutt Hmone Shwe Yee came together to support a campaign to raise public awareness of plastic litter in the Bagan Archeological Zone.  

Shwe Man Chan Thar, a renowned dance troupe, will perform at a ceremony to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the founding of Sagaing at the end of this month.

“We are very proud to participate in this celebration. This is a unique celebration of Sagaing so we will focus on giving special performances related to Sagaing.  A play will be arranged by Ko Nan Win as part of our performances,” said Chan Thar, a member of the dance troupe.

Up-and-coming animator Aw Pe Kyal, Nyan Kyal Say won the March 13 Award at the Third Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival last month for his three-minute-long animated film. “I Wanna Go to School” zooms in on the issue of children’s rights violations in Myanmar shamed by the sordid realities of child trafficking, child labour and child solders. He’s a medical student and an animator whose lifelong interest in cartoon art has been shaped by his acclaimed cartoonist father.

Philanthropy has enthralled Khin Hnin Kyi Thar since her childhood as a family value passed down by her parents. As a journalist, she and her colleagues founded the “Individual Philanthropists Network” that extols the virtues of philanthropy in the country. 

Her philanthropic work won her the special Citizen of Burma Award last year while her life story inspired a novel by Lin Kar Yi Kyaw. The young woman speaks to Myanmar Eleven about the social implications of philanthropic giving. 

Among the local entries submitted to the Third Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival, ethnic filmmaker Mai Ah Nway (Ta’ang Chitthu)’s short titled “A Buffalo Boy” grabbed both the Min Ko Naing  and Hanthawady U Win Tin Awards. In this exclusive interview with Myanmar Eleven, he recalls the urge to portray blatant human right violations and the scourge of drugs in Shan State’s Ta’ang area in in his film.

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