If you watch the trailer, you’ll want to see the film:
Here’s our chance…
Library theatre, Victoria Square, Birmingham. behind Bebo’s, Paradise Forum
Tuesday 13 October 6.10pm
Burma VJ (12A)
Dir: Anders Østergaard Denmark 1hr 24mins
‘In September 2007, as protesting monks in Burma marched barefoot into the guns of an oppressive regime, the world was forced to sit up and take notice by the equally extraordinary bravery of a small band of reporters. With foreigners unable to gain access to the country, journalists from the Democratic Voice of Burma took to the streets armed with video cameras, risking their lives to record history in the making before smuggling the footage out of the country and onto the internet.’ – Little White Lies
‘This remarkable expose raises integral questions about human rights and investigative journalism’ – Channel 4
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Come and join group members to watch this amazing film, meet either:
- 5.30 at Wetherspoons Pub in the Paradise Forum, or
- 5.50-6.00 at the library theatre (upstairs, at entrance)



Superb if harrowing film: the bravery of these video journalists and the demonstrators they film should make us all stop in our tracks. This also shows the brutality of the regime and the soldiers it enslaves: the sight of a Buddhist monk, clearly horribly beaten, lying dead in a river following the protests bears witness to events.
http://burmavjmovie.com/telegraph?&surveySuccess=1&qsid=1245159370 is a link to follow up the film with a petitioning letter to the UN.
Jon Andrews.