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BurmaVJ app for iPhone and iPad


4.7 ( 2387 ratings )
Entertainment
Developer: Collecting Smiles AB
Free
Current version: 1.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 26 Jun 2009
App size: 37.75 Mb

Explore the world of the upcoming movie - Burma VJ.  Burma VJ is the official App supporting the release of the award-winning movie. Download it, and access all the latest Burma VJ information and buzz around the film release, campaign and the one-off Saffron Premiere.  
Content includes Trailer, Gallery, facts, a "video journalism" feature, as well as a blog and news updates.  Stay connected to the Burma VJ campaign wherever you go.  

Application Features:
- Navigation menu - interactive touch menu to explore Burma VJ
- Saffron Premiere news 
- Official film Trailer 
- Video Journalism features 
- Stills from the movie 
- Blog and latest news updates 

About the film:
Armed with pocket-sized video cameras, a tenacious band of Burmese reporters face down death to expose the repressive regime controlling their country. In 2007, after decades of self-imposed silence, Burma became headline news across the globe when peaceful Buddhist monks led a massive rebellion. More than 100,000 people took to the streets protesting a cruel dictatorship that has held the country hostage for more than 40 years. Foreign news crews were banned, the Internet was shut down, and Burma was closed to the outside world. So how did we witness these events? Enter the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), aka the Burma VJs.
  
What the press said
“Burma VJ” is a rich, thought-provoking film not only because of the story it tells, which is by turns inspiring and devastatingly sad, but also because of the perspective it offers on the role that new communications technologies can play in political change. The viral videos of the Democratic Voice of Burma are like the hidden printing presses of earlier underground revolutionary movements, except that the portability of the cameras and the ease of Web and satellite-based distribution make them harder to suppress.
New York Times - NYT Critics Pick

Visit the official site for more information http://www.burmavjmovie.com/

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