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IN THE SHADOW OF THE PAGODAS - THE OTHER BURMA
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Irene Marty
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Burma, Thailand and the Thai/Burma border area, In the Shadow
of the Pagodas - The Other Burma is a documentary film which
aims to inform the international audience about a subject which
is nearly unknown outside the Thai national borders: the genocide
of Burma's ethnic minorities and the one of Christians and Muslims.
It is estimated that one million of internally displaced people
live today in the jungles of Burma, and still nothing of this
dramatic situation is shown to those who visit the country,
who are led, through a tourist-corridor, only to the sunny side
of it. Irene Marty and her team managed to meet the freedom
fighters and the rebel armies of Burma, and were able to reach
secluded areas never filmed before by a western camera. . |
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Screenplay Irene Marty
Photography (colour) Matthias Kälin
Editing Fee Liechti
Music Martine Villiger
Production François Bernath, KAIROS-Film GmbH (Switzerland)
Year of production 2004
Running time 74'
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Irene Marty
Irene Marty was born in Switzerland in 1958. In 1979, after moving to the USA, she starts working as a production manager and as an assistant to the director for the production of documentary films, in the USA and Asia, for ZDF, the second German television. Back in Switzerland in 1985, she goes through a two year training programme at the Swiss National Television. In 1990 she founds KAIROS-Film and since then she works as a freelance writer, director and producer. In the same year she directs her dëbut documentary film Karibu. Since then she wrote and directed several documentaries, short films and commercials for the Swiss National Television and ARTE, dealing with a large number of topics.
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