Burma VJ
Written and Directed by Anders Østergaard
Anders Østergaardʼs award-winning documentary shows a rare inside look into the 2007 uprising in
Myanmar through the cameras of the independent journalist group, Democratic Voice of Burma.
While 100,000 people (including 1,000s of Buddhist monks) took to the streets to protest the countryʼs
repressive regime that has held them hostage for over 40 years, foreign news crews were banned to
enter and the Internet was shut down. The Democratic Voice of Burma, a collective of 30 anonymous
and underground video journalists (VJs) recorded these historic and dramatic events on handycams and
smuggled the footage out of the country, where it was broadcast worldwide via satellite. Risking torture
and life imprisonment, the VJs vividly document the brutal clashes with the military and undercover police
– even after they themselves become targets of the authorities.
DIRECTOR Anders Østergaard
SCREENPLAY Anders Østergaard and Jan Krogsgaard
PRODUCER Lise Lense-Møller
ASSISTANT PRODUCER Cecilia Valsted
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Simon Plum and Burmese VJ’s
EDITORS Janus Billeskov Jansen and Thomas Papapetros
COMPOSER Conny Malmqvist
SOUND DESIGNER Martin Hennel
PRODUCTION MAGIC HOUR FILMS
Screening Information:
Sat, May 15, 5pm
Neon Movies (130 E. 5th St.)
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