Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country is a documentary film about the Saffron Revolution of 2007, a mass uprising in Burma. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 2010.

It tells the story of how a collective of 30 underground video journalists (VJs) of Norway-based news agency, the Democratic Voice of Burma, recorded these dramatic events on handycams and smuggled the footage out the country, broadcasting it worldwide via satellite. Risking torture and life imprisonment, the VJs vividly document the shocking brutality of the soldiers and undercover police shown towards the peaceful protesters.

In addition to the Oscar nomination, Burma VJ has won 40 awards, including “World Cinema Documentary Film Editing” and “Golden Gate Persistence of Vision” prizes.

The VJs took great personal risks to get the story of the Saffron Revolution out to the world. A number of them are currently incarcerated as a result of their roles in the Saffron Revolution.

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