Last night Burma VJ was beaten to the Academy Award for best documentary, by The Cove, a film about the killing of dolphins in Japan.
But to read more about the making of Burma VJ, the story of undercover video journalists during the 2007 uprising in Myanmar, read this blog post over at the Thomson Foundation Blog: ‘The secret training mission behind Oscar-nominated blockbuster‘.
Thomson Foundation provided training for the secret cameramen.
The uprising was in 2007, by the way.
Thank you for the correction – I’ve amended the text.