FILMS+EVENTS
Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country
New Docs

Running Time:
85 minutes
Screening Info:
Saturday, April 4
10:45AM
Cinema Four
Director(s):
Anders Ostergaard
Producer(s):
Lise Lense-Moller, Fredrik Gertten, Torstein Nyboe, Helle Ulsteen
Editor(s):
Thomas Papapetros, Janus Billeskov Jansen
Cinematographer(s):
Simon Plum, Burma VJs
Release Year:
2008
Country:
Denmark

US Premiere

How do you fight a brutal military dictatorship?  Over the years, the cold-blooded rulers of Myanmar have fired on their own citizens during non-violent protests, placed opposition figure Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest, and closed the country to the world's view.  When Buddhist monks began to march against the regime in September 2007, the Democratic Voice of Burma's staggeringly brave journalists used small digital camcorders to document the burgeoning demonstrations and subsequent violent repression.  DVB activists smuggled the tapes out of the country for worldwide distribution.  Anders Østergaard combines this startling on-the-scene footage with evocative reconstructions from the point of view of "Joshua," one of the DVB team in exile, to produce a riveting story of an intrepid people defying their oppressors.  NK