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By Michael Allen on March 8, 2010
Sadly, Burma VJ didn’t win the Oscar for best documentary. The film features covertly filmed footage of the 1988 Saffron Revolution filmed by a small group of video journalists — the “VJs” of the film’s title — working the Oslo-based exile group Democratic Voice of Burma, a grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy.
But it’s [read full story]
Posted in Asia, Burma, Democracy assistance, National Endowment for Democracy, authoritarianism, democracy support, freedom of expression, media, promoting democracy | Tagged Burma VJ, Democratic Voice of Burma |
By Michael Allen on February 2, 2010
Burma VJ has been nominated for an Oscar in the 2010 Academy Awards. The film is considered to be a front-runner in the race for the Best Documentary.
The documentary features the work of an underground network of video journalists which smuggled footage of Burma’s 2007 saffron revolution to the outside world. The network is supported [read full story]
Posted in National Endowment for Democracy, color revolutions, democracy support, promoting democracy, protests | Tagged Burma VJ, Democratic Voice of Burma, National Endowment for Democracy, saffron revolution |
By Michael Allen on June 19, 2009
Shortly after Cyclone Nargis devastated Burma, Evan Williams set his sights on documenting the aftermath in a documentary film.
But the former south-east Asia correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation realized it was easier said than done. The ruling military junta banned foreign journalists and even local film crews were banned from the Irrawaddy Delta which [read full story]
Posted in Asia, Burma, National Endowment for Democracy, democracy promotion, media | Tagged Burma VJ, Democratic Voice of Burma, National Endowment for Democracy |
By Michael Allen on May 26, 2009
A critically-acclaimed new documentary features the work of “a group of renegade video journalists who rely on handheld cameras, laptop computers and satellite Internet connections to transmit news from a closed nation.” Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country, a new film which chronicles the work of the Democratic Voice of Burma, a grantee of [read full story]
Posted in Asia, Burma, Democracy assistance, National Endowment for Democracy, media, promoting democracy, protests | Tagged Burma VJ, Democratic Voice of Burma, National Endowment for Democracy |
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