Mike talks to a genuine undercover journalist from Burma… awesome!
With BURMA VJ open to audiences in the UK, we were lucky enough to manage to talk to the man who organised the VJs in…
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Burma Vj
Mike talks activism with Anders Østergaard
As Burma Vj hits UK shores (my review here), OWF's Mike Edwards sought out director Anders Østergaard to talk about the challenges of making the…
BURMA VJ: REPORTING FROM A CLOSED COUNTRY
Politics and filmmaking are an explosive combo. From the silently affecting propaganda of Sergei Eisenstein to Pasolini's disturbing attack on the Italian institution in…
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