Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country // Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land
( Denmark, 2008, 90 min. )
Director: Anders østergaard
Anders østergaard’s award-winning documentary shows a rare inside look into the 2007 uprising in Myanmar through the cameras of the independent journalist group, Democratic Voice of Burma. While 100,000 people (including 1,000s of Buddhist monks) took to the streets to protest the country’s repressive regime that has held them hostage for over 40 years, foreign news crews were banned to enter and the Internet was shut down. The Democratic Voice of Burma, a collective of approximately 30 anonymous and underground video journalists (VJs) recorded these historic and devastating events on handycams and smuggled the footage out of the country, where it was broadcast worldwide via satellite. International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2008: Joris Ivens Competition Award
Film is screened in the Free Thought. Documentary cinema program
Screening shedule
– only for press
26 June
27 June
