Austria-based agency Autlook Filmsales has picked up world sales rights to “Myanmar Diaries,” one of the first films to be selected for the Berlin film festival’s Panorama section. The picture is A…
The picture is Autlook’s only new title for the online edition of the“Diaries” was made by anonymous group of filmmakers calling themselves the Myanmar Film Collective and was backed by Zindoc of The Netherlands. The members of the collective worked in Myanmar and smuggled out footage that documents what has been happening in Myanmar since the country’s military staged a coup on Feb. 1, 2021 and deposed a civilian government.
The Myanmar military has also taken control of much of the country’s media, jailed local and foreign journalists and repeatedly blocked mobile and internet communications. Many journalists have fled into exile or hiding within the country. The result has been a significant news blackout from a country that is one of the largest in Southeast Asia and once was among its most economically advanced.
Van Egeraat and her director partner Petr Lom lived in Myanmar from 2013-2017 teaching film and documentary photography. While there, they made an earlier feature-length documentary “Burma Storybook.”
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