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But Maung Myo Min made the brave decision to take no money for this movie, and he asked all the other participants in the project to follow suit. Even after subtracting salaries, which make up the bulk of a film’s production costs and allowing for the savings made possible by DVD technology, Maung Myo Min estimates that the movie will cost about as much as it would to produce a conventional celluloid film with salaries. "If we asked for salaries now," he says, "millions would be added to the cost of the film and the producer would not give us a try. All participants agreed that when the movie turns out to be successful, we will share the profits." And what will those profits be? Well, as the agent Soe Aung puts it in Maung Myo Min’s film, it depends on how qualified the film is. For now, hopes are high, but it remains to be seen whether the director’s DVD, like the jeep in its opening scene, is made of gold.