Draft:Sein Lyan Tun

Sein Lyan Tun
Sein Lyan Tun
စိန်လျှံထွန်း
Born	22 July 1980; Myanmar
Nationality	Burmese
Occupation	film director
Years active	2013–present

Draft article not currently submitted for review.

This is a draft Articles for creation (AfC) submission. It is not currently pending review. While there are no deadlines, abandoned drafts may be deleted after six months. To edit the draft click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.

To be accepted, a draft should:

Show the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article by using multiple sources that meet four criteria. The sources should be (1) reliable (2) secondary (3) independent of the subject (4) talk about the subject in some depth. For some topics, there are alternative criteria.
Be written from a neutral point of view
Respect copyright and do not plagiarize. Do not copy-paste.

It is strongly discouraged to write about yourself, your business or employer. If you do so, you must declare it.

Where to get help

If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews.
If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed.

How to improve a draft

Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia.
Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup
Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references
Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article
Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article
Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources

You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article.

Improving your odds of a speedy review

To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags.

Add tags to your draft

Editor resources

Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs

Last edited by Frietjes (talk | contribs) 2 days ago. (Update)

Submit the draft for review!

Sein Lyan Tun (Burmese: စိန်လျှံထွန်း) is a director from Myanmar currently residing in Paris. His latest short film Everybody’s Gotta Love Sometimes got selected in Busan International Film Festival 2023 under “Wide Angle Aisa Short Film Official Competition” and won "Sonje" Special Mention Award. Also his short film Late Blooming In A Lonely Summer Day has been selected in some international competitions like the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont Ferrand, and Locarno Filmmakers Academy.

He started working as a film festival coordinator at Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival, Yangon in 2013. He runs traveling film festivals and every year he reaches out to more than 300 schools around Myanmar to screen short films and documentaries. He also organized open air cinema to engage more audiences from different cities and villages. In 2015, his first short documentary film “Charred Brick” was european premiered in One World Human Rights Film Festival in Prague. He won the “People's Choice Award” from One World in Kyrgyzstan. His documentary Unsilent Potato is well-recognized in Myanmar and Southeast Asia. He also directed and co-produced the TV documentaries: Border Boy; We Are Nuns,“ Dream Over Monsoon for Inside Lens, NHK World!'s new documentary strand. His documentary For Me And Others Like Me won the Docs Spirit Award from Docs Port Incheon in 2016 and the HosoBunka Foundation Prize in 2017 at Japan Prize.

He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents 2022, FAMU summer filmmaking campus 2022, Talents Tokyo, American Film Showcase Fellowship, and Autumn Meeting directing workshop by Tran Anh Hung.

Filmography

Everybody's Gotta Love Sometimes (Short Film) 15 min (2023)
Late Blooming In A Lonely Summer (Short Film) 20 min (2021)
For Me And Others Like Me (Documentary) 30 min (2020)
We Are Nuns (TV Documentary) 28 min (2019) NHK
An Ordinary Marriage (Short Film) 13 min (2018)
Dream Over Monsoon (TV Documentary) 25 min (2017 ) NHK
Rays Of Amour (Documentary) 22 min (2017)
BORDER BOY (TV Documentary) 28 min (2016) NHK
Reborn (Short Film) 9 min (2016)
Unsilent Potato (Documentary) 22 min (2016)
Rula (Short Film) 8 min (2015)
Charred Brick (Short Documentary) 15 min (2015)

Early life and education

Born and raised in Mawlamyine, Mon state. Sein graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (French Language) at Yangon University of Foreign Language, Myanmar. He continued his education in Interactive Media Art Design at Alexander College, Larnaca, Cyprus and then move to Singapore and started working as Operation Director at Children Wishing Well Project in 2011. In 2014, Sein back to Myanmar and worked as Script Supervisor and Program Director for Myanmar National Television Channel (MRTV4). He also worked as Traveling Film Festival Coordinator at Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival, Yangon from 2013 until 2015.

Awards

Film	Festival	Awards	Year
Everybody's Gotta Love Sometimes	Busan International Film Festival	Special Mention (Sonje Award)	2023
For Me And Others Like Me	Docs Port Incheon 2016 (Incheon, South Korea)	Docu Spirit Award	2016
For Me And Others Like Me	Japan Prize 2017 (Japan)	Hoso Bunka Foundation Prize	2017
Unsilent Potato	FreedomFilmFest 2016 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)	Justin Louis Award (The Best Southeast Asia Short Documentary Award)	2016
	Woodpecker International Film Festival 2016 (New Delhi, India)	The Best Film Award (Gender)	2016
	Forever White Ribbon Film Festival], Yangon 2018 (Yangon)	Best Short Documentary Award People Choice Award	2018
	We Care Film Festival, India 2019	Jury Mention Award	2019
	Visual Documentary Project] 2019, Japan	VDP Justice Award Special Mention Award by Rithy Phan	2019
Charred Brick	Human Rights International Film Festival (Bir Dino, Kyrgyzstan)	People Choice Award	2015
Charred Brick	Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival (Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia)	Best Short Documentary Award (Golden Kinabalu Action 10)	2016
Rula	Asia International Micro Film Festival 2015 (Lincang, China)	The Best International Short Film Award (Asia Micro Film Golden Begonia Award)	2015
	Third China (Hangzhou) International Short-film Exhibition (Hangzhou, China)	Golden Osmanthus Award (Top 10 Innovative Public Interest Short Films)	2016
	Golden Frames International Short Film Festival (New Delhi, India)	Best Short From Asia Award	2016

References

"Asia Movie Pulse short film review of Everybody's Gotta Love Sometimes". asianmoviepulse.com. October 2023.
"The Beer Girl In Yangon, Cannes L'atelier Press Releases". festival-cannes.com. 2022.
"The Beer Girl In Yangon, Purin Grants announcement". Variety. 2022-10-31.
"The Bamboo Family,SGIFF Documentary Grants". MSN. 2024.
"Unsilent Potato Documentary director calls men prevent violence against women". bnionline.net. 2018-12-14.