PYAN—Short Animated film by Hillarei & Team (Kenny, Naing, & Nurin) at LASELLE
Support Hillarei’s Myanmar GoFundMe
Summary of Myanmar [1948—present]
Aung San Suu Kyi daughter of nationalist leader who fought for Burma’s independence from British Colonial Rule in 1948.
Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing Genocide
Myanmar Civil War : Military control
Military seizing power from govt of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021 [Tatmadaw Junta coup]
China-Myanmar Relations | Timeline
China Changing Sides, proposing ASEAN election
2024 China Government VS ASEAN leaders stance on the junta
2026 The Gambia takes Myanmar to court for Rohingya Genocide
MYANMAR ON INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE 2026 EMERGENCY WATCHLIST
Art when done well, resonates with the people.
It doesn’t take big production crews or massive multi-billion funding. It doesn’t distort or diminish the severity of the matter, appropriate or disrespects cultures, nor end up defending persecution for the sake of money. True outreach leaves no suffering unseen. It does not sacrifice integrity, to depict the raw truth.
Look at the comments section. Look at how a story of liberation, colonisation, class, hiding who one is, assimilation—all of these we BIPOC & especially BIPOC immigrants, can understand altogether. Seeing each other eye-to-eye, because we know this is an intergenerational pain that an artist cannot fabricate unless they themselves have been through it like us.
Because our very lives are the evidence, bearing witness this happening across space and time. Between the margins of race, religion and class. Evidence they’d want to erase. Evidence that we have embedded in our art, our creations, our impact, and remember with our livelihoods and honouring of our ancestry. So deeply and persistently that they cannot wash us out. They can’t possibly get rid of it all.
Those who have experienced colonisation, who descend from ancestors who were colonised. Those who have been taken from our lands, or have had to flee. This tells a story to us of we have spoken from our own mouths, witnessed with our own eyes, spilled of our own blood, and bear the intergenerational open wounds of.
We see. We feel. This is what valuable representation means to BIPOC & immigrants.
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