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97% Rotten Tomatoes Directed by Anders Østergaard Narrated by "Joshua" Initial release 9 January 2009 (Denmark) Box office 123,477 USD | 8/10 IMDb 82% Metacritic Starring The Burma VJs Music by Conny C-A Malmqvist Director Anders Østergaard Music director Conny Malmqvist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by Lise Lense-Møller Com: Magic Hour Films Line: Cecilia Valsted Ass.: Lars Frederiksen Written by Anders Østergaard,
Jan Krogsgaard Cast Aung San Suu Kyi, Ko Muang Nominations Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Similar Democracy movies, Movies about revolution, Documentaries | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country is a 2008 Danish documentary film directed by Anders Østergaard. It follows the Saffron Revolution against the military regime in Burma. The "VJ" in the title stands for "video journalists." Some of it was filmed on hand-held cameras. The footage was smuggled out of the country, physically or over the Internet. Other parts of it were reconstructed, which caused controversy.
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Awards and nominations
The film won awards, especially at European film festivals, e.g. it won the Golden Apricot at the 2009 Yerevan International Film Festival, Armenia, for Best Documentary Film. It won the World Cinema Documentary Film Editing Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Burma VJ was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Box office
The film was released to one theater on 20 May 2009 and grossed $5,554 in the opening weekend. Its widest release was in three theaters. As of 1 May 2010, the total gross stands at $123,477.
DVD features
The DVD includes a message from Buddhist actor Richard Gere comparing the situation in Burma to that in Tibet.