Screening of Burma VJ, an Academy Award-nominated film reporting the Saffron Revolution that took place in Burma in 2007. This report played a fundamental role in the history of Burmese documentary. For the first time, citizen-journalists and photojournalists managed to get over censorship and send to international press agencies image of the demonstration and its violent governmental repression.
After the screening, Ian Holliday will share his knowledge of the country.