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Dir(s): Anders Høgsbro Østergaard
Program: Special Presentations
Run Time: 85 | Denmark | Language: (Subtitled in English) Burmese English
Burma VJ recounts the efforts of a small group of independent video journalists who risked torture and life in jail to ensure the truth behind the country's 2007 political uprising was broadcast to the world. Led by hundreds of Buddhist monks, more than 100,000 people marched peacefully against the military junta that has held the country in an iron grip for 40 years-and that cracked down mercilessly on the protestors and the monks. Foreign TV crews were suddenly banned from the country, leaving undercover video journalists armed with small handy cams to capture the truth behind the events. Consisting largely of material shot by undercover reporters during the protests, Burma VJ follows the efforts of Joshua, the 27-year-old leader of the Democratic Voice of Burma, as he and a handful of others counter the propaganda of the military regime. An insightful and dramatic document of history as it unfolds.
Co-presented with Rights & Democracy.
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Director(s) : Anders Høgsbro Østergaard
Producer(s) : Lise Lense Møller
Cinematographer(s) : Burma's undercover journalists, Simon Plum
Editor(s) : Janus Billeskov Jansen, Thomas Papapetros
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country deals with the following subjects: Activism, Journalists & the Media, South & Southeast Asian Cultures & Issues, War and Conflict
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country will be presented at the following times and locations.
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| 6:30 pm Mon, May 4 |
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| 1:45 pm Wed, May 6 |
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| 7:15 pm Sun, May 10 |
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