Documentary: people and Buddhist monks took to the streets to protest

Monday, February 01, 2010

Swedish filmmaker Anders Oestergaard’s docudrama (2009, 85mins) takes us to Myanmar 2007, when 100,000 people and Buddhist monks took to the streets to protest the country's repressive regime that holds them hostage for over 40 years. Foreign news crews were banned to enter and the Internet was shut down. A collective of 30 underground video journalists (VJs) recorded these historic and dramatic events on cell phone cams and smuggled the footage out of the country, where it was broadcasted worldwide via satellite. While risking torture and life imprisonment, they continued the broadcasting relentlessly.