MYA AKHINA

มาญา อัคคิณาห์

film & video director / art department

Akhina Woranithiphong (“Mya Akhina”) is a filmmaker and Bournemouth Film School graduate whose work explores memory, identity, and the complex, dysfunctional relationships. Working across directing and production design, she is drawn to experimental forms of storytelling, using visual language and material spaces to communicate emotion beyond dialogue.

ABOUT ME

Hi, I'm Mya, a freelance filmmaker and Bournemouth Film School graduate specialised in production design and directing with focus on scenic painting, set finishing and experimental filmmaking.

My approach to film, both in directing and production design, is largely to do with exploring ways in which story can be told in unconventional ways, and that can be exemplified in my recent works, such as in "What Remains of Calico Hill", which was the graduation film I directed where I explored non-linear narrative structures without spoken dialogue, or in "ABC; Signs: A Study of Summer", a feature film on age regression experimentation that I designed where production design reflects real psychology and excludes the norm of aesthetics.

My upcoming work as a director includes a fashion editorial short film "Who's Bri'ish Anyway", a contemporary re-telling of a story about migration and the experiences of displacement and refuge within the context of current issues surrounding immigration and conflicting identity.

In the art department, I am open to assisting roles in scenics, set dressing, and prop-making as I have a particular interest in texture painting and faux ageing/weathering to create believable, immersive environments.

APPROACH

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UPCOMING WORK

Who's Bri'ish Anyway?

2026 | Editorial

Visit the Directing page

ABC: Signs; A Study of Summer

2026 | Feature Film

Visit the Art Department page

Previously...

Recently in March, I directed a graduation film for the Bournemouth Film School as my final major project. The film follows a mother and daughter in 1960s and 1930s Japan as they discover (and rediscover) the events of the past.

In 1939, a young nurse (“Young Mother”) experiences the emotional devastation of sending her lover to war. Her world is defined by patriotic devotion, enforced resilience, and the human experiments which surrendered humanity in the name of science. Decades later, her daughter, referred to as “San” (“Miss”), lives an isolated and restrained existence alongside her ageing mother. While tending crops and constructing scarecrows, San uncovers fragments of a concealed past — letters, paper cranes, and a lock of hair. Each discovery prompts imagined visions of a life unlike her own, gradually allowing her to piece together a hidden family history shaped by war and sacrifice.

Set against the haunting backdrop of war and its aftermath, What Remains Of Calico Hill explores themes of memory, loss, generational trauma, and quiet resistance within systems of power. As the narrative moves gradually reveals a story of love lost through war, the film suggests that memories of the past, whether painful or comforting, are never truly erased. Instead, they remain suspended in time: watching, waiting, and hidden in plain sight.