Burma VJ - Reports from a locked country

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Movie
German title Burma VJ - Reports from a locked country
Original title Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land
Country of production Denmark
original language Burmese , English
Publishing year 2008
length 84 minutes
Rod
Director Østergaard is different
script Not so Østergaard,
Jan Krogsgaard
production Lise Lense-Møller
music Conny CA Malmqvist
camera Simon Plum
cut Janus Billeskov Jansen ,
Thomas Papapetros

Burma VJ - Reports from a Locked Country is a Danish documentary drama directed by Anders Østergaard from 2008. The film follows the demonstrations in Myanmar in 2007 against the military dictatorship in Burma . The film was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Documentary in 2010 .

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The film is based on material from various video journalists (VJs) in Burma who are trying to document the situation in their country. Your recordings, taken over several months during the demonstrations in Myanmar in 2007, are interwoven in the montage . Burma VJ shows the beginnings of the demonstrations as well as their suppression.

criticism

The documentary was generally well received. For example, Rotten Tomatoes only had two negative reviews out of 59 reviews. According to the consensus, the film is a "powerful, visceral docu-drama". A summary of the reviews at Metacritic also gives a Metascore of 82 out of 100 points. The main point of criticism of the film was according to the critics in the dramatization of some scenes, whereby the reenactment of some scenes caused controversy. Robert Davis, an editor of Paste magazine , said Østergaard "blurs the line between what is real and what is recreated."

Awards

After its publication, the docu-drama received many critics and audience awards. In 2009 Burma VJ received the World Cinema Documentary Film Editing Award at the Sundance Film Festival . In the same year the film won an award in the Investigative Documentary Feature category at the San Francisco International Film Festival . Burma VJ was one of the nominated films for Best Documentary at the 2010 Academy Awards , but lost to The Bay .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kevin Thomas; Glenn Whipp: Burma VJ 'vividly details monk uprising , LA Times , May 29, 2009, accessed January 28, 2012
  2. ↑ Burma VJ from Rotten Tomatoes , accessed January 28, 2012
  3. ↑ Burma VJ at Metacritic , accessed 28 January 2012
  4. ↑ Andrew Marshall: Burma VJ: Truth as Casualty , Time , January 29, 2009, accessed January 28, 2012
  5. ^ Robert Davis: True / False Film Festival Wrap-Up , Paste Magazine, March 14, 2009, accessed January 28, 2012
  6. ^ Sundance Film Festival: Burma VJ - International Documentary Feature Films ( Memento from September 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
  7. ^ San Francisco Film Society: 2009 Winners ( Memento from April 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).

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