Documentary on Burma’s Saffron Revolution – the 2007 national uprising against a fascist government, led by Buddhist monks and ordinary people. Opens this week in the San Francisco Bay Area, check your local area for screenings and/or contact the filmmakers to request a showing.
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**International Documentary Film Festival 2008 (Amsterdam)**
Joris Ivens Award
**One World Human Rights Film Festival (Prague)**
Vaclav Havel Award
Amnesty International Award
This award-winning documentary shows a rare inside look into the 2007 uprising in Myanmar through the cameras of the independent journalist group, Democratic Voice of Burma.
In 2007, 100,000 monks took to the streets in Burma’s Saffron Revolution. The Democratic Voice of Burma, a collective of 30 anonymous and underground video journalists (VJs) recorded these historic and dramatic events on handycams and smuggled footage out of the country, where it was broadcast world-wide via satellite Risking torture and imprisonment, the VJs vividly document the brutal clashes with the military and undercover police– even after they themselves become targets of the authorities.
This film has received rave reviews and multiple awards. See never before seen footage of the Saffron Revolution.
Click here to view the trailer. <http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=c7P2Vecd2HFECButHee0rDg1g4wpURXx>
Berkeley:
Landmark Shattuck
July 17-23
2230 Shattuck Ave
Berkeley, CA 94701-1416
(510) 464-5980
1:40 pm, 3:40 pm, 5:40 pm, 7:40 pm, 9:40pmSF
Landmark Lumiere
July 17-23 (2:40 5:00) 7:20 9:35
1572 California Street at Polk
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 267-4893