DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE MYANMAR SAFFRON REVOLUTION SHORTLISTED FOR ACADEMY AWARDS
November 20th 2009 04:07
A documentary film on the crackdown on Buddhist monk-led protests in Myanmar in September 2007 has been shortlisted among the nominations for next year’s Academy Awards.
The documentary, Burma VJ, directed by Danish Anders Ostergaard, was released in 2009 and has been shortlisted for the 2010 Academy awards by the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Burma VJ is one of 15 films listed in the Documentary Feature category, which will advance in the voting process for the Academy Awards.
The documentary highlights the risks journalists and dissidents in military-ruled Myanmar took during the September 2007 protests, later dubbed the Saffron Revolution. It has already won about 33 film awards including the World Cinema Documentary Film Editing Award, Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award, and has been nominated for EFA Documentaire 2009 - Prix Arte.
Toe Zaw Latt, chief of the Democratic Voice of Burma’s Thailand Bureau, which contributed around 80 percent of the video clips used in the Burma VJ, told Mizzima News that, “Now, the plight of people in Burma is not only highlighted in the international media but also in film. It also fulfilled our commitment to increase awareness on the media blacked out country at the international level.”
The film is based on the story of Joshua, an “undercover” reporter for the Oslo-based Democratic Voice of Burma,
Equipped with a small handycam he reported from the streets of Yangon during the September 2007 uprising, and smuggled out the footage, which was broadcast back into Myanmar via satellite by the international media such as the CNN, BBC and Aljazeera.
The documentary, Burma VJ, directed by Danish Anders Ostergaard, was released in 2009 and has been shortlisted for the 2010 Academy awards by the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Burma VJ is one of 15 films listed in the Documentary Feature category, which will advance in the voting process for the Academy Awards.
The documentary highlights the risks journalists and dissidents in military-ruled Myanmar took during the September 2007 protests, later dubbed the Saffron Revolution. It has already won about 33 film awards including the World Cinema Documentary Film Editing Award, Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award, and has been nominated for EFA Documentaire 2009 - Prix Arte.
The film is based on the story of Joshua, an “undercover” reporter for the Oslo-based Democratic Voice of Burma,
Equipped with a small handycam he reported from the streets of Yangon during the September 2007 uprising, and smuggled out the footage, which was broadcast back into Myanmar via satellite by the international media such as the CNN, BBC and Aljazeera.
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