Maung Wunna
Maung Wunna was a two-time Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards-winning Burmese director and writer. He came from a family heavily involved in the entertainment industry—his father Thadu was a director and his brother Thu Maung was a prominent singer and actor and Min Lu was a reputed satirist. Maung Wunna died of lung cancer in 2011.
Career
Wunna worked from an early age as a sound engineer and film editor for his novelist and filmmaker father, Thadu. In 1970 he earned a BA in philosophy from University of Yangon. His first film as a director, Wearing Velvet Slippers under a Golden Umbrella, was released in 1971, and he won the National Award for Best Direction. Alongside his work as screenwriter and director, Maung Wunna published articles on film, short stories and novels.After 42 years of regional release, his 1973 film Tender Are the Feet was premiered at the Forum section of the 64th Berlin Film Festival in February 2014.
Filmography
- Wearing Velvet Slippers under a Golden Umbrella
- Tender are the Feet
- Behind the Lace Curtain
- Deep and Unforgettable Sorrow
- The Palest of Pink
- Miss. Wai, Filled with Flowers
- Self-less Ego
- I am Summer, My Lover is Winter
- To My Bosom Friend
- Across the Jungle
- Wai Lwin Lwin
- Tree of Love
- Is the Sky Going to Pour Down?
- Let Compete our Love
- Love with Heart and Life
- Maung Sein Thaung, Ma Hnin Yee
- Seventh Degree Multiple Sorrow
- Miss Gyan Bone, from the Seven Hut District
- Something to Laugh About
- Practical Experience
- We are…
- Women and Money
- Winter in My Heart
- Energy Boost
- A Man who Can Laugh as Melancholy
- Right to the Core of the Heart
Awards
;Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards- 1971: Academy Award for Best Director, Katipa phanat see shwe htee hsaung
- 1990: Academy Award for Best Director, ''Khun hnit sint ah-lwan''