Burma VJ : reporting from a closed country

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Burma VJ : reporting from a closed country

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reporting from a closed country

Statement of responsibility

Produced by Magic Hour Films ; in co-production with WG Film ; Mediamente ; Kamoli Films ; The Danish Film Institute ; DR TV ; in association with Channel 4 Television ; HBO Documentary Films ; SVT Stockholm/Culture ; WDR ; Arte ; IKON ; NRK; a film by Anders Østergaard ; script by Anders Østergaard & Jan Krogsgaard ; produced by Lise-Lense Møller ; director, Anders Østergaard

Title variation

• Reporting from a closed country
• Burma video journalists
• Reporter i et lukket land

Contributor

• HBO Documentary Films
• Interkerkelijke Omroep Nederland (Firm)
• Kamoli Films
• Magic Hour Films
• Mediamente (Firm)
• Norsk rikskringkasting
• Oscilloscope Laboratories (Firm)
• Sveriges television
• WG Film (Firm)
• Westdeutscher Rundfunk
• Malmqvist, Conny
• Krogsgaard, Jan
• Association relative à la télévision européenne
• Lense-Møller, Lise
• Østergaard, Anders, 1965-
• Channel Four (Great Britain)
• DR TV (Television station : Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Danske filminstitut
• First Hand Films (Firm)

Composer

• Malmqvist, Conny

Director

• Østergaard, Anders, 1965-

Producer

• Lense-Møller, Lise

Screenwriter

• Østergaard, Anders, 1965-
• Krogsgaard, Jan

Subject

• Buddhism and politics -- Burma
• Buddhist monks -- Burma -- Political activity
• Burma -- Armed Forces | Political activity
• Burma -- History -- 1988-
• Burma -- Politics and government -- 1988-
• DVD-Video discs
• Democracy -- Burma -- History
• Democratic Voice of Burma
• Documentary films
• Feature films
• Freedom of the press -- Burma
• Government and the press -- Burma
• Human rights -- Burma
• Nonfiction films
• Pacifism -- Religious aspects | Buddhism
• Video recordings
• Video recordings
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings
• DVD-Video discs
• Feature films
• Documentary films
• Nonfiction films

Language

• eng
• bur
• eng
• bur
• eng

Summary

"Anders Østergaard's...documentary... is a rare and exceptional look into the 2007 uprising in Burma (Myanmar) where 100,000 people, including thousands of Buddhist monks, peacefully took to the streets to protest the country's repressive regime that has held them hostage for over forty years. During the uprising, the military turned their guns on the peaceful protestors, and blood spilled in the streets. Foreign news reporters were banned and the internet shut down. But Democratic Voice of Burma, a collective of thirty anonymous and underground citizen video journalists (VJs), heroically bore witness to the historic events and secretly videotaped what they saw. Through a dedicated network of supporters, they smuggled the footage out of the country, where it was broadcast via satellite to a world horrified by the violence against a people fighting for democracy. Risking torture and life imprisonment, the VJs vividly documented the brutal clashes with the military and undercover police -- even after they became targets of the authorities. Burma VJ represents their inspiring stories of courage and hope and the undying spirit of a people fighting for freedom." -- Container

Awards note

Freedom of Expression Award (2009), National Board of Review ; World Cinema Documentary Editing Award, 2009 Sundance Film Festival ; Winner, Cinema for Peace Award, International Human Rights Film Award (2009), Cinema for Peace ; Winner, Grand Jury Award, 2009 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival ; Nominee, Best Documentary Feature, 2010 Academy Awards ; Winner, Grand Prize, 2009 Boulder International Film Festival.

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Simon Plum ; reportage footage, Burma's video journalists ; editors, Janus Billeskov Jansen, Thomas Papapetros ; composer, Conny C.-A. Malmqvist

Dewey number

959.1053

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

In English and Burmese ; optional English subtitles

LC call number

DS530.65

LC item number

.B87 2010

Runtime

89

Technique

live action