Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi

Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi (Burmese: မင်းထင်ကိုကိုကြီး; born c. 1961) is a Burmese documentary filmmaker, poet, and former political prisoner.[1] He has directed 8 feature-length films and 2 documentaries.[2] His 2010 film, Floating Tomatoes, won best documentary at the 2010 Documentary Film Association of Southeast Asian States.[2] He founded the Human Dignity Film Institute, to train young filmmakers, in 2013.[2] Between 2013 and 2017, he organised the Human Rights Human Dignity film festival in Myanmar.[3]

In this Burmese name, the given name is Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi. There is no family name.
Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi
မင်းထင်ကိုကိုကြီး
Bornc. 1961 (1961) (age 62)
Burma
Occupations
  • Filmmaker
  • poet

In early 2019, he posted a series of Facebook posts criticising the Tatmadaw, and questioning the legitimacy of the 2008 Constitution of Myanmar, which was drafted by the military junta.[4][5] In April 2019, he was arrested, despite having undergone surgery for liver cancer recently.[4] On 29 August 2019, he was sentenced to 1 year of hard labour under section 505(a) of Myanmar's Penal Code, and released on 21 February 2020.[4][6][7]

On 1 February 2021, in the wake of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, he was re-arrested, becoming one the first individuals to be arrested after the coup, alongside other veteran political prisoners like Maung Tha Cho, Than Myint Aung, and Mya Aye.[2] He remained imprisoned at Insein Prison until his release in November 2022.[8]

Filmography
  • Human Zoo (2005)
  • Beyond the Dream (2006)
  • Strand (2007)
  • The Last Poem (2008)
  • Moonlight Sonata (2008)
  • On the Trail of Clouds (2009)
  • Floating Tomatoes (2010)
  • Thanakha (2012)
  • Father's School (2012)

Personal life

He has one daughter, Me Min Htin.[8]

References
  1. "Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi Profile". Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. 2020-01-22. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  2. "Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi". Artists at Risk Connection. 2019. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  3. Dunant, Ben (2019-06-26). "Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi and the jealous nation". Frontier Myanmar. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  4. "Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi". Freedom Now. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  5. "Myanmar filmmaker charged over Facebook posts about military". Reuters. 2019-07-18. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  6. "Burmese Filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi Freed From Prison". PEN America. 2020-02-21. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  7. "Myanmar: Yangon court convicts prominent filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi". ARTICLE 19. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  8. "ထောင်ဒဏ် (၂) နှစ်စီ ချမှတ်ခံထားရသည့် ဒါရိုက်တာ မင်းထင်ကိုကိုကြီးနှင့် အဆိုတော် စောဖိုးခွားပြန်လည် လွတ်မြောက်". Popular (in Burmese). 2022-11-15. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
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