[Nettime-nl] Tonight @ cinema OT301 Burma VJ

[Suzanne Hogendoorn <info@suzannehogendoorn.com>]

Tonight in Cinema OT301
Overtoom 301, Amsterdam, 20.30

BURMA VJ

Going beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, the acclaimed  
filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to the video journalists  
who deliver the footage. Though risking torture and life in jail,  
courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as  
they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country.  
Armed with small handycams the Burma VJs stop at nothing to make their  
reportages from the streets of Rangoon. Their material is smuggled out  
of the country and broadcast back into Burma via satellite and offered  
as free usage for international media. The whole world has witnessed  
single event clips made by the VJs, but for the very first time, their  
individual images have been carefully put together and at once, they  
tell a much bigger story. The film offers a unique insight into high- 
risk journalism and dissidence in a police state, while at the same  
time providing a thorough documentation of the historical and dramatic  
days of September 2007, when the Buddhist monks started marching.

http://www.ot301.nl

www.burmavj.com

entrance 4 euro
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