Watch Burma VJ

The acclaimed filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to the video journalists who risk torture and life in jail to keep up the flow of news from their closed country.

Courageous young citizens armed with nothing but small handycams the Burma VJs stop at nothing to make their reports from the streets of Rangoon.

Their material is then smuggled out of the country and broadcast back into Burma via satellite and offered for free to the international media.

The world has witnessed single clips made by the VJs, but for the very first time, their stories have been carefully put together to offer a unique insight into high-risk journalism and dissidence in a police state, while at the same time providing a thorough documentation of the historical and dramatic days of September 2007, when the Buddhist monks started marching.

Get together a bunch of friends, rent the DVD and settle down to be both educated and amazed at the lengths the VJs will go to to tell the story of Burma.

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