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Released
2008 · FILM

Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country

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Runtime
84 min
DocumentaryHistoryNews

Synopsis

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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Principal cast & crew: 11

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Janus Billeskov JansenShot by Guilad KahnScored by Conny Malmqvist

Also known as

  • Burma VJ – Berichte aus einem verschlossenen Landde
  • Burma Vj - Cronache da un paese blindatoit

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