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Burma VJ celebrates the courage of the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), a group of underground journalists who risked their lives to document the 2007 uprising against the junta.
Leslie Felperin, Variety
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
2008 · 1h 24m · UNRATED
Documentary
Directed by
Anders Østergaard
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Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
Overview
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.
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Burma VJ would be even more intense without its early announcement that some scenes have been restaged, putting the viewer in a regrettably uncertain relationship to what follows.
Rob Nelson, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Narrated by a frightened journalist who trembles as he accumulates forbidden footage and provides a historical viewpoint, "Burma VJ" uses shocking video images and reconstructed scenes to create a coherent, mostly chronological account of what happened.
John Hartl, Seattle Times
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In traditional terms, this is hardly a film at all. It's more like a bootlegged YouTube video.
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com
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Although directed by Denmark's Anders Ostergaard, the true heroes of Burma VJ are the cadres of guerrilla video journalists who secretly filmed the junta's brutal suppression of the popular revolt in the fall of 2007.
Michael Posner, Globe and Mail
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