Maung Wunna

Birthday: 1/19/1947
Deathday: 1/11/2011
Place of birth: Rangoon, Burma. [now Yangôn, Myanmar]
Fame for: Directing

Biography

Maung Wunna was a two-time Myanmar Motion Picture Academy Awards-winning Burmese director and writer. Wunna worked from an early age as a sound engineer and film editor for his novelist and filmmaker father, Thadu. 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.