| Burma VJ | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Anders Østergaard |
| Produced by | Lise Lense-Møller Com: Magic Hour Films Line: Cecilia Valsted Ass.: Lars Frederiksen |
| Written by | Anders Østergaard, Jan Krogsgaard |
| Narrated by | "Joshua" |
| Starring | The Burma VJs |
| Music by | Conny C-A Malmqvist |
| Cinematography | Simon Plum |
| Editing by | Janus Billeskov & Thomas Papapetros |
| Distributed by | Dogwoof Pictures (UK), Oscilloscope Laboratories (US) |
| Release date(s) | November 12, 2008 (COPDOX) |
| Running time | 84 mins |
| Country | Denmark |
| Language | Burmese English |
| Box office | $123,477[1] |
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country is a 2008 Danish documentary film directed by Anders Østergaard. It follows the September 2007 protests against the military regime in Burma.[2] Some of it was filmed on hand-held cameras. The footage was smuggled out of the country,[3] physically or over the Internet. Other parts of it were reconstructed, which caused controversy.[4]
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In association with the European culture channel ARTE, the winner will be presented at the 22nd European Film Awards Ceremony on Saturday, 12 December, in Bochum/Germany.
Sundance Film Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival
CPH:DOX
Berlinale
Boulder International Film Festival
Bodil (Danish Golden Globe) 2009 (Denmark)
ZagrebDox (Croatia)
Robert , Danish Film Academy Award 2009 (Denmark)
One World 2009 (Czech Republic)
11th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Perspektive International Human Rights Film Festival Nuremberg
Full Frame Documentary Festival (USA)
ITS ALL TRUE – 14th International Documentary Film Festival – São Paulo (Brazil)
Amnesty International's Movies that Matter Festival (Holland)
San Francisco International Film Festival (USA)
For the courage of its cameramen, the boldness of its director, and exemplary transnational collaboration; and, for its model of collective investigations in high and low technology, carried out under threat of death and imprisonment, to beam the truth of a country out to the world, the award for best investigative documentary goes to BURMA VJ
Planete Doc Review 2009 (Poland)
Mountainfilm in Telluride 2009 (US)
Grand Prix International Du Documentaire D´Auteur 2009, URTI, Monte-Carlo
Shot at the risk of human lives and with basic technical means, this film makes us live from inside events having opposed the Burmese monks then the students to the ruling military dictatorship. The author used these strong images to put the speech of democracy on a dissident satellite channel and to supply the international media.This film was made in exceptional conditions, which widen the documentary genre.
Golden Apricot” 6th International Film Festival, 2009 (Armenia)
Jerusalem International Film Festival, 2009 (Israel)
Festival Cine Ourense
Odense Film Festival 2009, Denmark
I WILL TELL FILM FESTIVAL 2009
Branchage Jersey International filmfetival 2009
GRIERSON 2009, The British Documentary Award, UK
DokMa 2009, Slovenia
Verzio 6 Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Hungary
4 Screens European Film Festival, France
National Board of Review, US
Cinema Eye Honors, US
The film was released to one theater on May 20, 2009 and grossed $5,554 in the opening weekend. Its widest release was in three theaters. As of May 1, 2010, the total gross stands at $123,477.[7]
The DVD includes a message from Buddhist actor Richard Gere comparing the situation in Burma to that in Tibet.[8]