‘Burma VJ’ gets Best Documentary Oscar nod

The nominations for the 2010 Oscars were announced in Hollywood last night, with South East Asian documentary “Burma VJ” receiving a nomination in the Best Documentary Feature category.

Directed by Anders Østergaard, "Burma VJ" chronicles the work of dissident video-journalists during the September 2007 'Saffron Revolution' uprisings led by Buddhist monks in Myanmar.

As Bangkok blogger Wise Kwai notes in a piece posted today, parts of the documentary were filmed in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where the main dissident in the film was forced to set up shop to monitor satellite transmissions and e-mails from his colleagues in Yangon after things got too heated in Myanmar.


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