The nominations for the 2010 Oscars were announced in Hollywood, with South East Asian documentary "Burma VJ" receiving a nomination in the Best Documentary Feature category.
Directed by Anders Østergaard, "Burma VJ" chronicles the work of dissident video-journalists during the September 2007 'Saffron Revolution' uprisings led by Buddhist monks in Myanmar.
As Bangkok blogger Wise Kwai notes in a piece posted today, parts of the documentary were filmed in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where the main dissident in the film was forced to set up shop to monitor satellite transmissions and e-mails from his colleagues in Yangon after things got too heated in Myanmar.
Directed by Anders Østergaard, "Burma VJ" chronicles the work of dissident video-journalists during the September 2007 'Saffron Revolution' uprisings led by Buddhist monks in Myanmar.
As Bangkok blogger Wise Kwai notes in a piece posted today, parts of the documentary were filmed in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where the main dissident in the film was forced to set up shop to monitor satellite transmissions and e-mails from his colleagues in Yangon after things got too heated in Myanmar.
Anders Østergaard's award-winning documentary shows a rare inside look into the 2007 uprising in Myanmar through the cameras of the independent journalist group, Democratic Voice of Burma.
While 100,000 people (including 1,000s of Buddhist monks) took to the streets to protest the country's repressive regime that has held them hostage for over 40 years, foreign news crews were banned to enter and the Internet was shut down. The Democratic Voice of Burma, a collective of 30 anonymous and underground video journalists (VJs) recorded these historic and dramatic events on handycams and smuggled the footage out of the country, where it was broadcast worldwide via satellite. Risking torture and life imprisonment, the VJs vividly document the brutal clashes with the military and undercover police - even after they themselves become targets of the authorities.
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