Burma VJ

Going 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.
”Joshua”, age 27, is one of the young video journalists. 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.

This is one of the most important films of 2009, kicking off with a World Premire in March.

Website:
burmavjmovie.com

Starring:  Joshua

Director:  Anders Østergaard

Running Time: 84 min

Country: Denmark

Awards: World Cinema Documentary Film Editing Award at 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Joris Ivens Award and Movies That Matter Award at 2008 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Fesitval, Best Documentary at 2009 Bodil Awards, Best Documentary at 2009 Robert Festival.