MORU (Mahidol Oxford Tropical Research Unit) , SMRU (Shoklo Malaria Research Unit) and FilmAid Foundation invite you to the Bangkok Premiere of Under the Mask on the 17th June. This drama film is based on real testimonies of TB patients. The story follows the lives of our characters as they journey from diagnosis to treatment and help from the SMRU TB team, and explores how each discovers their capacity to overcome the deadly disease and share their knowledge and experience with others. Made in the local language, this film provides an engaging and inspiring tool for raising TB awareness in the community.
MORU, SMRU and FilmAid Foundation have the pleasure to invite you to the Bangkok Premiere of Under the Mask
Monday 17th June 2019 in Bangkok Screening Room
Woof Pack Building, 2nd Floor, 1/3-7 Sala Daeng Soi 1, Silom, Bangrak, Bangkok 10550
Under the Mask is a drama film based on the real testimony of tuberculosis (TB) patients. The story follows the lives of our characters as they journey from diagnosis to treatment and help from the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) TB team, and explores how each discovers their capacity to overcome the deadly disease and to share their knowledge and experience with others.
Under the Mask is a powerful look at TB on the Thai-Myanmar border. Made in the local language and with the local community it provides an engaging and inspiring tool for raising TB awareness amongst the community.
Produced by the FilmAid Foundation, Under the Mask, uses non-professional actors from the border community to allow TB patients to tell their story of life with TB. The FilmAid Foundation uses a participatory approach to filmmaking, using cast and crew drawn from grassroots and vulnerable communities.
UNDER THE MASK – Film Duration 74 mins HD (Language: Burmese Subtitles: English)
For FilmAid Foundation
Director: Saw Ler Wah
Director of Photography: Saw Min Thu
Editor: Sone Lin Htoo
Writers: Saw Ler Wah & Mary Soan
Producer: Mary Soan
Cast
Zay Yar Aung as U Tajar Min – Ma Mi Nge as U Tajar Min’s Wife – Ko Ko Aung as A’Tun – Si Thu as A’Sai – Daw Nwe Yee as Ma Zar Zar
Khin Mg Myint as Ko Kyaw Aung – Dr Banyar as Dr Banyar – Hser Eh as Nyein Chan – Naw Htay Paw as Nurse Paw Poe
Producer (SMRU): Dr Michele Vincenti, Shoklo Malaria Research Unit
Executive Producer (MORU): Associate Professor Phaik Yeong Cheah, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit
Funded by: A Wellcome Trust Provision for Public Engagement Grant & FilmAid Foundation
Programme:
17.45 Doors open, drinks and snacks
18.45 Welcome and introductions
19.05 Under the Mask
20.20 -21.30 Q & A with Director and Producers
For more information please contact: Rita@tropmedres.ac
The original article for this post can be found here.
Photo credits to the NIAID, which can be originally found here.
