Using their bare hands, married couple Htwe Tin and Thein Shwe draw oil from a pit they drilled themselves on the land next to their house. There are lots of these “artisanal” oilfields dotted around Myanmar, where people have swapped crop cultivation for selling the oil they pump from the ground by hand.
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| Directing | Saeed Taji Farouky | Director |
| Camera | Saeed Taji Farouky | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Catherine Rascon | Editor |
| Production | Estelle Robin-You | Producer |
| Production | Palmyre Badinier | Co-Producer |
| Production | Joram Willink | Co-Producer |
| Writing | Saeed Taji Farouky | Writer |
| Production | May Odeh | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Fatima Dunn | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Joshua Min Htut | Director of Photography |