Please be aware of upcoming screenings in San Francisco and Berkeley of this important film. Many films at the film festival sell out in advance so I'd recommend getting tickets now.
52nd San Francisco International Film Festival
From April 23 to May 7, the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival brings the best of world cinema to the Bay Area, with many films focusing on human rights including Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country, which revisits the 2007 protests against Burma’s military dictatorship.
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
Dir. Anders Østergaard
This harrowing, breathless documentary revisits the 2007 protests by hundreds of silent monks and thousands of chanting citizens against Burma’s military dictatorship, using the stunning concealed-camcorder footage smuggled abroad by a cadre of courageous young reporters. Danish filmmaker Anders Ostergaard artfully merges breathless sequences from the smuggled tapes with recreations of Joshua’s cell phone conversations, crafting a harrowing narrative that thrusts us into the protestors’ giddy celebrations and the terrifying aftermath. Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country demonstrates the potential of consumer technology to divert power to the people, but above all salutes the heroes who pressed "record" within eyeshot of the secret police. - Michael Fox
The film screens on:
May 1 at 6:30PM at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, San Francisco
May 2 at 9:15PM at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, San Francisco
May 6 at 8:45PM at the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
For tickets and information visit www.sffs.org or call 925-866-9559.
For more information about Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
visit http://fest09. sffs.org/ films/film_ details.php? id=13
Hope you can make it to one of these screenings. I'll be attending May 2 .
