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Burma VJ – Reporting From A Closed Country
Directed by: Anders Hogsbro Ostergaard
Production: Magic Hour Films ApS, Norwegia, Szwecja, Dania, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, UK 2008, 84 min SCREENINGS:
8 May 18.00
12 May 21.30
16 May 12.30
Selected festivals and awards:
2009 – Berlinale, Berlin International Film Festival – International Human Rights Award; Danish Film Academy Award – Best Long Documentary; Sundance Film Festival – World Cinema Documentary Editing Award; ZagrebDox – International Documentary Film Festival – Special Mention;
2008 – IDFA, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam – Joris Ivens Award, Movies that Matter Human Rights Award;
Armed with small handy cams, undercover Video Journalists in Burma keep up the flow of news from their closed country despite risking torture and life in jail. Their material is smuggled out of Burma and broadcast back via satellite. 'Joshua', age 27, becomes tactical leader of a group of reporters, as Buddhist monks in September 2007 lead a massive uprising. Foreign TV crews are banned from the country, so it's left to Joshua and his crew to keep the revolution alive on TV screens all over. As government intelligence understands the power of the camera, the VJs become their prime target.
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