Lush Life Films is a Spanish-German filmmaking and photography association based in Mae Sot, Thailand. Located at the Thai-Burmese border, Lush Life Films focuses on collaborating with local and international NGOs and partners by providing creative services such as photography and video production. Our aim is to use different methods of creative storytelling to encourage impactful and sustainable social change. By working closely with marginalized communities, we aspire to provide a platform which projects and empowers local voices and perspectives.

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Mae Sot is a small municipality in Tak province, Western Thailand, sharing a border to Karen state, Myanmar. Given the complexities of Myanmar’s past and present, in regards to its political, social, economic, and environmental instabilities and prolonged ethnic conflicts with systemic attacks on ethnic minorities, Mae Sot has become a center of refuge and transition zone of migrants for many years. As a result of Myanmar’s most recent coup d’état induced humanitarian crisis by the military on February 1st 2021, the number of Myanmar residents seeking refuge in neighboring countries has sky-rocketed. Given its proximity to the border, Mae Sot is, even more than before, receiving a growing number of refugees and displaced people by the day. As Thailand is not part of the Geneva Refugee Convention, any displaced person within Thailand is faced with severe difficulties regarding any legal rights, including the right to work, protection from deportation, or chance of resettlement. Lush Life Films aims to not only raise awareness of these situations but rather contribute towards empowering individuals in telling their stories and introducing creative storytelling methods like film and photography as ways forward.