Filmmaker Ma Aeint missing after arrest

Filmmaker Ma Aeint missing after arrest

Rising filmmaker Ma Aeint has disappeared without a trace after being arrested by authorities in Myanmar earlier this month. Her family has no knowledge of her whereabouts, nor formal explanation for her sudden detention, Variety reported.

Ma Aient was a producer and co-writer on “Money Has Four Legs,” which appeared in the New Currents competition at the Busan International Film festival in 2020.

She was also a regular participant at co-production and project promotion events intended to boost independent filmmaking in Asia.

She was picked up by authorities in Yangon shortly after leaving home around midday on June 5, 2021.

The next day, family members in Myanmar were informed of her arrest.

They were told that she is being housed at an undisclosed place of interrogation.

There has not been any communication with her since her disappearance.

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