Between 1997 and 2000, Shin Daewe worked as an assistant producer at Audio Visual (AV) Media, which was Burma's first private documentary film company.
[6][11] In 2013, Shin Daewe directed a 15-minute documentary titled Now I'm 13, which depicts the struggles of a teenage girl from central Burma who was deprived of educational opportunities due to poverty.
[12] Her videoreport “Ayeyarwady Riverbank Erosion”, showing anthropogenic climate change consequences in Myanmar, won 2024 Grace Awards.
[13] On 15 October 2023, Shin Daewe was arrested by soldiers of the Myanmar military at the Aung Mingalar bus terminal in Yangon after they found a drone in her luggage.
On 10 January 2024, she was imprisoned for life at the Insein Prison in Yangon under the Counterterrorism Law due to allegations that she funded and helped terrorists.