Burma VJ-Reporting From A Closed Country

Burma VJ-Reporting From A Closed Country (Burma VJ: Reporter i et Lukket Land),2008

Denmark, DVD, Color, 85’

Director: Anders Østergaard

Language: Danish

Screening: Sunday, April 7, 17:00, Friday, April 12, 15:00

Going beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, the acclaimed filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to the video journalists who deliver the footage. Though risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country. Armed with small handycams the Burma VJs stop at nothing to make their reportages from the streets of Rangoon. The film offers a unique insight into high-risk journalism and dissidence in a police state, while at the same time providing a thorough documentation of the historical and dramatic days of September 2007, when the Buddhist monks started marching.