{"id":31083,"date":"2017-03-01T12:25:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T11:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/film-mag.net\/wp\/?p=31083"},"modified":"2017-03-01T21:51:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T20:51:06","slug":"cph-dox-international-premiere-of-petr-loms-burma-storybook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/film-mag.net\/wp\/?p=31083","title":{"rendered":"CPH: DOX international premiere of Petr Lom’s BURMA STORYBOOK"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHP: DOX (Special Screenings)
\nBURMA STORYBOOK
\na film by Petr Lom and Corinne van Egeraat<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Poet Mae Yway (photo credit:\u00a0Dana Lixenberg) 81 min \/ color \/ The Netherlands \/\u00a02017 \/\u00a0international premierePetr Lom, Corinne van Egeraat and Nyein Chan Aung (son of main character Maung Aung Pwint) are available for interviews<\/p>\n

Screenings:<\/strong>
\nCinemateket Asta,\u00a0March 21 at 21.30<\/span><\/span>
\nGloria Biograf,\u00a0March 23 at 21.00<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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BURMA STORYBOOK taps into a\u00a0country\u00a0emerging from years of dictatorship through the stories and poems of\u00a0Burmese poets. Myanmar, on the cusp of change, is still an open wound. Poetry, the most popular art form in Myanmar, is used to\u00a0express both\u00a0memories of pain and how to adapt to a fast-changing culture. The lyrical words of the Burmese poets parallel the strong visual images filmmakers Petr Lom and Corinne van Egeraat bring to the screen.<\/p>\n

Maung Aung Pwint, the\u00a0country\u2019s most famous dissident poet alive today,\u00a0waits for his long-lost son to return home after himself\u00a0spending years in prison for for his writings and activism.\u00a0Having\u00a0inspired fellow prisoners and younger generations to take up the pen he preserves the legacy of Burmese poetry.\u00a0Young poet Mae Yway\u00a0reflects a new generation of poets who use their words not only as an art form but\u00a0as a call for activism.<\/p>\n

Petr Lom was born in Prague in 1968 and\u00a0grew up in Canada. He is now based in The Netherlands with his wife Corinne van Egeraat. He received his Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard and was Associate Professor at George Soros\u2019 Central European University in human rights and philosophy.\u00a0 In 2003, he became an independent documentary director and producer specializing in human rights film. His award-winning films have been broadcast in over thirty countries and screened at more than two hundred and fifty film festivals around the world including Sundance and the Berlinale.\u00a0 His filmography: BRIDE KIDNAPPING IN KYRGYZSTAN (2004);\u00a0ON A TIGHTROPE\u00a0(2007), LETTERS TO THE PRESIDENT (2009); BACK TO THE SQUARE\u00a0(2012), ANA ANA (\u201cI am me\u201d in Arabic – 2013), and BURMA STORYBOOK (2017), for which he is also writing the accompanying book.<\/p>\n

Producer Corinne van Egeraat is from The Netherlands. She is an\u00a0independent filmmaker and creative producer with a background in theatre, she specializes in projects on creative freedom of expression. In 2011-12 she produced the Self-Portrait Video Project, a year-long workshop on autobiographical storytelling with young Egyptian artists, which culminated in the collaborative feature documentary ANA ANA (\u201cI am me\u201d in Arabic) that was nominated for best film at IDFA 2014 and released in the cinemas in the Netherlands. She is currently producing Framing the Transition, a human rights photography essay project with twelve young Burmese photographers. Selected as Netherlands filmmaker of the year in 2004,\u00a0her filmography, all of which has been broadcast in the Netherlands, is: LORD OF THE JUNGLE\u00a0(2000),\u00a0COWBOYS IN KOSOVO\u00a0(2004),\u00a0SPEEDING ON THE VIRTUAL HIGHWAY ( 2007), BRIDGING THE GAP (2008), DISLOCATED (2009), and ANA ANA (\u201cI am me\u201d in Arabic – 2013).<\/p>\n

BURMA STORYBOOK photo exhibition\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The film BURMA STORYBOOK is part of a larger project created by\u00a0Petr Lom and Corinne van Egeraat to highlight the current developments in Myanmar for international audiences. The film will released in Holland by Cinema Delicatessen after IFFR, followed by international festival screenings.<\/p>\n

Another component is a book and exhibition by the world-renowned\u00a0photographer Dana Lixenberg who shot a portrait series of the seventeen\u00a0poets featured in BURMA STORYBOOK. The portraits are featured in a\u00a0book, published in June containing Lixenberg’s photos, poetry in English and Burmese, plus interviews with the poets. Lixenberg’s exhibition, plus documentary work by twelve Burmese photographers will tour internationally.<\/p>\n

A longer version of the film will tour Myanmar with free screenings, with the book being released there in an accessible, low-budget edition. Petr will present lectures on the project as a whole.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Website:\u00a0www.burmastorybook.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Press materials:\u00a0www.silversaltpr.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

[Izvor informacija CPH:DOX<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n

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