In honor of the release, indieWIRE re-posted a first person account by Ostergaard (originally from the UK newspaper The Guardian) about his journey creating the movie.
He writes:
Burma VJ was supposed to be a modest little film: a half-hour, low-key yet intimate portrait of Joshua, a 26-year-old Burmese video journalist, or VJ. Joshua had decided to do his bit for a better Burma by taking his video camera, usually concealed, on to the streets of Rangoon to document what he could of everyday life. When we started work on the project, in early 2007, the footage Joshua was able to show us was, frankly, totally uneventful: little reports on street kids, life in his village, the miserable state of the railways...
...I felt his charismatic commentary, coupled with this footage, would open a tiny peephole on to this isolated, almost forgotten country...Instead, we ended up crashing right through the main gate.
Read the full account on INDIEwire here.
Check out the trailer on our site and get more information about the movie on the official Burma VJ website.