Tuesday 9th March
7.00pm, Cafe Mondial
Guest speaker Waihnin Pwint Thon, whose father was part of the '88 student generation in Burma,
will be coming in to talk about the situation in Burma.
Film Synopsis:
"Armed with video cameras a tenacious band of Burmese reporters face down death to expose the
repressive regime controlling their country."
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.
