Burmas VJ, film screening – Feb. 15

Burma VJ – Reporting from a Closed Country, film screening

McEwen 011, 7:30 p.m.

A tenacious band of Burmese video journalists faced down death to expose the repressive regime controlling their country to document the 2007 street protests and extraordinary events of the “Saffron Revolution” led by Buddhist monks. The Human Rights International Film Festival supported by the Elon Fund for Excellence.