New York University’s

Prague Institute for Democracy, Economy, and Culture,

invites you to a screening of the film

The event will be held in English.

Please RSVP if you are planning to attend.

e-mail: pidec.nyu@gmail.com

Burma VJ: Reporting From a

Closed Country

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The 83-minute screening will be followed by a conversation with Czech journalist

Pavel Vondra who who was in Burma right before the failed 2007 Saffron

Revolution as well as Marie Havlínová, program officer for Burma Projects, the

nongovernmental organization People in Need and Sabe Soe, director of the Burma

Center in Prague.

Burma VJ, which has won many documentary and human rights awards worldwide

(Sundance, Berlin Film Festival), is about clandestine video journalists inside Burma, a

country run by a repressive totalitarian junta. The 2008 film, made entirely in secret on handheld

cameras and secretly smuggled out of the country, reveals how these brave Burmese

journalists risk their lives to film a growing 2007 revolution-peace-democracy movement

among the monks, one that is eventually crushed. Their horrific fate is of course also the fate

of the journalists. It is a film about the unquenchable desire for freedom in the face of

violence, but also about journalism, and how without human rights, the lines between

journalism and advocacy may blur.

Monday, November 23rd, 2009, 6 p.m.

Masaryk Classroom

Malé náměstí 2, Praha 1

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The event will be held in English.

Please RSVP if you are planning to attend.

e-mail: pidec.nyu@gmail.com