Burma, Treasures and Scars is born in a spontaneous way during a travel across Burma. The purpose of this documentary set out to persuade the organized tourism not to choose this country as holiday destination. This aim is reflected in the title: “treasures” are the plenty of imagines and music of incredible beauty, the “scars” symbolize the price these treasures had and still have to pay. Here are revealed the narrations of peasants, children, men and women, victims of abuses of power, tortures and injustice who express with one voice only one entreaty: freedom. This journey through Burma was a journey in the history of the present and the past, in Buddhism, in the hope and in hard labour; and finally a visitation in the refugees camp of one of the most ancient ethnic groups of the world, the Karen, and their stories and testimonies of the most recent outrages.

Sceneggiatura / Screenplay Gianrigo Marletta, Jennifer Cavagnol
Fotografia (colore) / Photography (colour) Gianrigo Marletta, Jennifer Cavagnol
Montaggio / Editing Gianrigo Marletta, Jennifer Cavagnol
Produzione / Production Vagabond Reporters International
Anno di produzione / Year of production 2007
Durata / Running time 65’
Formato / Format DVD

Gianrigo Marletta

Gianrigo Marletta is born 1979 in Catania. His mother is American, grown up in Rom, he spent the youth across the two continents. When he was 24 years old, during a travel in India, his obsessive love for Asia was born. 2006 he set off to Indochina where he met Jennifer. 2007 they moved to Burma. That gave the idea to make a documentary. After the editing they founded the Vagabond Reporters International with the purpose to document the experiences made.

Jennifer Cavagnol

Jennifer Cavagnol is born in Guam and grew up in the Hawaii. She graduated in sciences at the University of Massachusetts..