Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country Denmark
2008, 84min.
Prod.: Lise Lense-Møller, Script: Anders Østergaard, Jan Krogsgaard, Dir.: Anders Østergaard, Dir. of Phot.: Simon Plum, The Burmese VJs, Music By: Conny C-A Malmqvist, Sound: Martin Hennel, Edit.: Janus Billeskov Jansen, Thomas Papapetros.
Armed with small handycams undercover Video Journalists in Burma keep up the flow of news from their closed country risking torture and life in jail. Their material is smuggled out of Burma and broadcast back via satellite. Joshua, age 27, becomes tactical leader of a group of reporters, as Buddhist monks lead a massive uprising in September 2007. Foreign TV crews are banned from the country, so it’s left to Joshua and his crew to keep the revolution alive on TV screens all over. As government intelligence understands the power of the camera, the VJs become their prime target.
Production Company
Magic Hour Films
Baldersgade 6
2200, København, Denmark
Tel./Fax: +45 39 64 22 84
E-mail: post@magichourfilms.dk
Awards
Amnesty Award, DOX:Awards - CPH:DOX(Denmark, 2008); Joris Ivens Award, Movies that Matter Human Rights Award (IDFA, 2008); World Cinema Documentary Editing Award (Sundance FF, 2009).
| Østergaard, Anders Anders Østergaard (born 1965, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Anders Østergaard graduated from the Danish School of Journalism in 1991. After five years in advertising and public relations, he wrote and directed his first documentary, Johannesburg Revisited. An international breakthrough followed in 2004 with Tintin and Me, and in 2006 he launched Gasoline—the best-selling documentary in the history of Danish cinema. Both Tintin and Me and Gasoline won the Bodil Award for the best documentary film of the year.
Filmography (selected)
Johannesburg Revisted (1996), Malaria! (2001), Tintin and Me (2003), Gasolin (2006), Burma VJ (2008).
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