Kefka Film Production is a Yangon based production company established in 2019 and founded by three filmmakers Soe Arkar Htun (producer), Khin Warso (producer) and Sai Naw Kham (director). We dedicated to socially engaged cinema, bringing social and political change through cinematic expression. We focus lies on feature films with a unique voice. We also enthusiastic about creative documentaries as well as mixed-genre films and short formats.
SOE ARKAR HTUN
Co-Founder/ Producer
KHIN WARSO
Co-Founder/ Producer
SAI NAW KHAM
Co-Founder/ Director
SAI NAW KHAM
Sai Naw Kham made his first foray into directing in 2014 whilst a beginner student at Yangon Film School with The Crocodile Creek, a short film which merged myth and memory to explore present-day environmental issues in Myanmar’s Yangon River. For his next film, 32 Souls (YFS, 2015), he travelled to his native Shan to portray one woman’s memories in this war-torn part of Myanmar. Following its international premiere at DOK Leipzig in 2016, this film went on to screen to acclaim at festivals including Busan in Korea and at Kathmandu’s Film South Asia Festival in Nepal. In 2020, he directed a short drama, The Forgotten Voices of the Mekong, which has screened at a number of festivals as part of an anthology film entitled ‘Mekong 2030’. Song of Souls is his first feature-length documentary.
KHIN WARSO
Khin Warso comes from Mawlamyine in Myanmar’s Mon State. Having studied journalism at the National Management College she first worked as a reporter for an IT journal in Yangon before joining YFS in 2014 where she provided the soundtrack for the documentary The Crocodile Creek. Her first film as a director in her own right was Slate for which she won the 2015 Goethe-Institut Ruby Documentary Award. Khin Warso earned her first credit as producer on the YFS ‘true fictions’ production Book Lover. She has since lent her production talent to a number of projects by YFS-alumni, including Lin Hnin Aye’s film about a Lisu shaman, Sound of the Spirits.
SOE ARKAR HTUN
Soe Arkar Htun is an up-and-coming film producer from Myanmar. The first short documentary he directed in 2014, A Political Life, won the Watersprite (UK) ‘Filmmaker of the Future Award’ and was nominated for Best ASEAN documentary at Salaya Documentary Film Festival in Thailand. He worked as an editor and sound recordist on various projects before focusing on his producing career. In 2018, he received a scholarship to study international film production at Busan Asian Film School. Later he and two other colleagues founded Kefka Film Production. Soe Arkar Htun is also an alumnus of the Locarno Open Door Lab, Asiadoc Producer’s Workshop in Cambodia, the Hanoi International Film Festival Talent Campus, and Fair International Film Festival Talent Campus.