An incredible documentary of a tenacious band of Burmese reporters armed with video-cameras facing death, torture or life in jail to expose the regressive regime controlling their country. The film offers a unique insight into high-risk journalism and dissidence in a police state, while at the same time providing a thorough documentation of the historical and dramatic days of September 2007, when the Buddhist monks started marching. "Joshua", age 27, is one of the young video journalists, who works undercover to counter the propaganda of the military regime. Joshua is suddenly thrown into the role as tactical leader of his group of reporters, when the monks lead a massive but peaceful uprising against the military regime. Amidst marching monks, brutal police agents, and shooting military, the reporters embark on their dangerous mission, working around the clock to keep the world informed of events inside the closed country. Their compulsive instinct to shoot what they witness, rather than any deliberate heroism, turns their lives into that of freedom fighters. With Joshua as the psychological lens, the Burmese condition is made tangible to a global audience so we can understand it, feel it, and smell it.

Anders Østergaard (b. 1965) graduated from the Danish School of Journalism in 1991. He worked as a copywriter at an advertising agency and as a researcher on documentary programmes. Østergaard was awarded Best Documentary at Odense International Film Festival in 1999 for "The Magus". He wrote and directed the international coproduction "Tintin et moi" (2003), and the documentary about one of Denmark's most popular rock bands Gasolin (2006), which had a successful run at the domestic box office with nearly a quarter million admissions. His latest BURMA VJ is the winner of the IDFA's Joris Ivens Award. In 2009 he received his third Danish Critics' Bodil Award, this time for BURMA VJ.

Gensyn med Johannesburg (1996, doc), Trollkarlen - en film om Jan Johansson (1999, doc), Tintin et moi (Tintin and Me, 2003, doc), Gasolin (2006, doc), Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land ( Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country, 2008, doc)