Burma VJ – Now Streaming on Docuseek
Essential documentary films for higher education
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85 min. | Closed Captioned
A film by Anders Østergaard
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"Assembled from footage shot surreptitiously on handycams, BURMA VJ provides a frightening glimpse into a repressive regime."
The Hollywood Reporter
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Using smuggled footage, Academy Award®-nominated Burma VJ tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks.
"Joshua", age 27 and one of the undercover VJs, is suddenly thrown into the role as tactical leader of his group of reporters, when Buddhist monks lead a massive uprising in September 2007. Foreign TV crews are banned from entering the country, so it is left to Joshua and his crew to document the events and establish a lifeline to the surrounding world. It is their footage that keeps the revolution alive on TV screens all over.
As government intelligence agents understand the power of the camera, the VJs soon become their prime target. During the turbulent days of September, Joshua finds himself on an emotional rollercoaster between hope and despair, as he frantically tries to keep track of his reporters in the streets while the great uprising unfolds. With Joshua as the psychological lens, the Burmese condition is made tangible to a global audience so we can understand it, feel it, and smell it.
Beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, the acclaimed filmmaker Anders Østergaard, brings us close to Burma’s video journalists who insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country despite risking torture and life in jail. Armed with small handycams they make their undercover reportages, smuggle the material out of the country, and broadcast back into Burma via satellite or offered as free usage for international media.
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Screened at more than 150 festivals worldwide, and garnering 47 international awards including a Peabody Award, Sundance Documentary Editing Award, the top prize at IDFA, and an Academy Award® nomination for Best Documentary Feature, Burma VJ from First Hand Films, is now streaming exclusively on Docuseek for education.
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