Wednesday, 10 February 2010 10:31 Mizzima News (News Brief)
(Mizzima) – Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country captured the award for best film for the producer at the 11th Mumbai International Film Festival held today in Mumbai, India.
Produced by Dane Lise Lense Molle, the film focuses on the undercover reporting of Buddhist monks marching in protest in September 2007 against the Burmese regime, which had drastically raised fuel prices overnight a month previously.
Armed with hand-held cameras, Burmese video journalists (VJs) took great risk in reporting from the streets of Rangoon and smuggling footage out of the country to be broadcast around the world by the international media.
The film is also nominated in the same category for next month’s Oscars as well as already being honored at Amsterdam IDFA 2008, Sundance Film Festival 2009, Berlinale 2009, Bodil 2009 and the Boulder International Film Festival 2009.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
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