Once-thriving Myanmar cinema readies for new wave (via Nikkei Asian Review)
about 71 months ago (07/02/2018)
Once-thriving Myanmar cinema readies for new wave (via Nikkei Asian Review) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar July 2, 2018 YANGON — Change is afoot in Myanmar’s now moribund movie industry. Just over two decades ago, the country’s current de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi was imprisoned by all-powerful military generals and Western sanctions made it nearly impossible to import film reels into the isolated and impoverished Southeast Asian country. But in the cinematic heydays of the 1950s and 1960s, Myanmar citizens flocked to art deco-style single-screen theaters in the then-capital Yangon to see local productions from one of the region’s most prolific film industries.