Corinne van Egeraat is a Dutch independent filmmaker and creative producer with a background in theatre. She specializes in projects around creative freedom of expression. In 2011-2012 she produced the Self-Portrait Video Project, a year-long workshop on autobiographical storytelling with young Egyptian artists, which culminated in the collaborative feature documentary ANA ANA (“I am me” in Arabic). The film was nominated for best film at IDFA 2014 and released in the cinemas across the Netherlands. Corinne is currently producing Framing the Transition, a human rights photography essay project with twelve young Burmese photographers.
Poetry is immensely popular in Burma/Myanmar, a country emerging from years of dictatorship and isolation. In the past, poetry was a way to endure and resist tyranny. Today, there are more online poets than bloggers. The stories and poems in Burma Storybook circle around Maung Aung Pwint, the country’s most famous dissident poet alive today, as he waits for his…