Maung Wunna
Directing
January 19, 1947
Died at age 63
January 11, 2011
Date of Death
Rangoon, Burma. [now Yangôn, Myanmar]
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.