Irish Film Institute -BURMA VJ

BURMA VJ

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DENMARK • 2008 • DIGITAL • 85 MIN


BURMA VJ: REPORTING FROM A CLOSED COUNTRY// JULY 14 (8.20)
+ Satellite Introduction and Discussion
In the first of what will be a series of IFI Stranger Than Fiction documentary screenings, we are delighted to present a preview screening of BURMA VJ.
Director Anders Østergaard brings us close to Burma’s video journalists in this remarkable documentary. Filming covertly, and risking their lives in the process, the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) smuggle their footage out of the country and have it broadcast back into Burma via satellite, providing free images to international media outlets. When, in September 2007, Buddhist monks lead a massive uprising, VJ Joshua is thrown into the role of tactician, coordinating a group of undercover reporters. With foreign TV crews banned from entering the country, it is left to Joshua and his crew to document the events, keeping the revolution alive on TV screens all over the world.

We will be broadcasting a live satellite introduction, and post-screening discussion with the filmmakers, as part of this screening.

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