The film, Click in Fear, directed by DVB cameraman Sai Kyaw Khaing, follows Law Eh Soe during a period when the former ruling junta, acutely aware of the international fallout should its crackdown on protesting monks make headlines, exercised a
ARTISTS and Freedom of EXPRESSION
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Art of Freedom Film Festival : first ever uncensored
Sunday, January 1 2012
Artists in Myanmar are testing new freedoms through films shown at a festival that for the first time in the country's recent history were not censored. "The Art of Freedom Film Festival" began screening films on Saturday that were not
Freedom of Arts film festival : 180 films received.
Saturday, December 24 2011
The Freedom of Arts film festival has received about 180 films. An award ceremony will be held on January 4 at the Rangoon Taw Win Centre. The festival is organized by film director Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi and director Ko Thu Ra. Prizes will be presented
Zarganar's first trip outside Burma
Tuesday, December 20 2011
Zarganar is on a trip to Thailand and Cambodia to study filmmaking in preparation for his role in organizing the “The Art of Freedom Film Festival” in Rangoon next month. However, the 50-year old entertainer dissident said that he wished to help his
လွတ်လပ်ြခင်းအနုပညာ ရုပ်ရှင်ပွဲေတာ်တွင် ြပိုင်ပွဲဝင် ဇာတ်ကားေပါင်း ၁၅၀ ခန့်ရှိ
Tuesday, December 20 2011
လာမယ့် ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၃၁ ရက်န့မှာ စတင်ဖွင့်လှစ်မယ့် လွတ်လပ်ြခင်းအနုပညာ ရုပ်ရှင်ပွဲေတာ် (THE ART of FREEDOM FILM FESTIVAL) မှာ ြပိုင်ပွဲဝင် ဇာတ်ကားေပါင်း ၁၅၀ ေလာက်အထိ ရှိေနြပီြဖစ်ပါတယ်။ ြမန်မာ့ရုပ်ရှင်ေလာကနဲ့ အနုပညာေလာကသားေတွထဲက နာမည်ြကီး
(Jokes & puns) King Kong
Monday, December 19 2011
King Kong was chasing a passenger plane, sending all of the passengers crying for help. The Prime Minister of China warned him to stop or face his army, but King Kong didn’t listen. Vladimir Putin of Russia made the same warning, but to no avail.
Monaco birmano rischia l’espulsione dall’ordine
Saturday, December 17 2011
L’ordine monastico buddista birmano ufficiale, sostenuto dal governo centrale, bolla come “disobbediente” Ashin Pyinna Thiha e minaccia di ridurlo a breve allo stato laicale. Egli sarebbe colpevole di aver sostenuto in modo attivo il movimento
Arts of Freedom Film Festival in preparation
Friday, December 16 2011
The Arts of Freedom Film Festival may be celebrated in Tawin Center Yangon from 1st to 4th January 2012 was in arrangement. Short Film and Documentary Films could be in Competition before Deadline 20th December was defined. After Arts of Freedom Film
2011 Press Freedom Prize awarded to Burma’s Weekly Eleven News.
Thursday, December 8 2011
“We are honouring a newspaper that has never bowed to Burma’s censors. Weekly Eleven News has always stood up to the military junta, using extraordinary ingenuity to slip through the censorship net and inform the Burmese public. Its editors and
Zarganar plans to travel
Wednesday, December 7 2011
Comedian Zarganar, recently freed from prison, plans to travel to Thailand, Cambodia, the United States and Germany after being issued a passport. Zarganar, real name Ko Thura, said he received his first passport in late November, barely a month and
Schools : 'subversive' teaching face up 3 years in prison
Tuesday, December 6 2011
Staff at private schools in Burma who include in their teaching material discussions of topics deemed subversive by the government could face up to three years in prison, according to new rules enacted last week. A line in the law allowing the
Support to ethnic people and political prisoners in Thailand
Friday, December 2 2011
The Best Friend Library, which was founded in 1999 by two Burmese monks in exile, organized a rally on Thursday in support of Burma’s ethnic people and political prisoners in front of the US Consulate in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The rally coincides with
Win Maw, singer/songwriter, awarding the 2011 Imprisoned Artist Prize
Friday, November 25 2011
Win Maw, also a prominent Burmese singer/songwriter, is currently serving a 17-year sentence in Kyaukphyu prison in westernmost Burma. In awarding the 2011 Imprisoned Artist Prize, the Singapore-based Freedom to Create group praised the 49-year-old’s
UN Working Group : Burma's violation of articles 19 and 20
Friday, November 25 2011
The Burmese government has been warned by a UN body that its sentencing of two journalists working for the Democratic Voice of Burma is arbitrary, and now faces high-level calls for their release. 21 year old Sithu Zeya and his father, U Zeya, were
Photograph James MacKay : a lens in a closed country
Saturday, November 19 2011
Can photography help to shine a light on a closed country ? J. MacKay. Photography can play an important role in closed societies, not just by providing a so-called ‘voice’ for the people, but also by it’s incumbent power to inform, educate and
Censorship is flexing its muscles once again
Friday, November 18 2011
Burma’s notorious Press Scrutiny and Registration Division (PSRD) is flexing its muscles once again, refusing to allow the publication of certain remarks made by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday and rejecting news reports covering
Myint Naing : arrested for filming protest
Friday, November 18 2011
Police have detained an activist on charges of breaching Burma’s notorious Video Act after he allegedly filmed a protest by landless farmers in Irrawaddy division two months ago. His lawyer, Phyo Phyu, said that Myint Naing was brought to the
Mandalay: continua la protesta dei monaci
Thursday, November 17 2011
I cinque monaci birmani protagonisti della protesta iniziata ieri a Mandalay hanno tenuto un secondo intervento pubblico, davanti a una folla composta da un migliaio di persone e un capannello di agenti in borghese. Essi hanno ricevuto pressioni da
monaci in protesta, democrazia e libertà per i prigionieri politici
Tuesday, November 15 2011
Cinque monaci birmani hanno lanciato una protesta nel monastero di Maha Mya Muni, a Mandalay, attirando l’attenzione di oltre 500 persone, che si sono assiepate attorno al luogo di culto. Essi chiedono a gran voce la pace in Myanmar – tuttora
Donne sequestrate e violentate dall’esercito birmano
Thursday, November 10 2011
Sequestrata per diversi giorni e violentata a turno da un gruppo di soldati birmani. È l’incubo vissuto dalla 28enne Sumlot Roi Ja, una donna di etnia Kachin e madre di una bambina di soli 14 mesi. La giovane è originaria del villaggio di Hkai Bang,
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