Videos and multimedia on Burma in Burmese, Karen and other languages of Burma, most with English subtitles.

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Title: "EngageMedia" (Video)
Description: About: EngageMedia is a non-profit media, technology and culture organisation. EngageMedia uses the power of video, the Internet and open technologies to create social and environmental change. We harness old and new media to assist movements challenge social injustice and environmental damage, as well as to present solutions. EngageMedia works with independent film-makers, journalists, technologists, campaigners and social movements to generate wider audiences for stories of social change, to intervene in the public discourse and to move people to action. We demystify and provide strategies for the effect use of video distribution and engagement technologies; connect video makers and activists to media distributors and audiences; and form peer networks of media-makers, technologists and campaigners. The EngageMedia has offices in Indonesia and Australia, and team members in Singapore, Myanmar, the USA and the Philippines. Check out our team page for a full staff listing. Our team page is also available in Indonesian.
Source/publisher: "EngageMedia"
Date of entry/update: 2015-06-27
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Title: "The Irrawaddy" video page (video)
Description: Videos (undated) in these categories: * Burma Election 2010 (19) * Culture and Society (19) * Dateline Irrawaddy (22) * Editorial Analysis (23) * English Subtitles (3) * Feature Documentaries (17) * News and Events (43)
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy"
Date of entry/update: 2011-03-21
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: Burmese (some English subtitles)
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Title: Drum publications film and video page (video)
Description: Videos and links to videos in S?Gaw Karen, Shan, Kachin and other languages.
Source/publisher: Drum Publications Group
Date of entry/update: 2009-04-24
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: Karen, Shan, Kachin etc.
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Title: Mizzima Youtube page (videos)
Description: 253 videos (February 2009)635 (May 2010)...Mostly in Burmese.
Source/publisher: MizzimaNewsTV
Date of entry/update: 2009-02-24
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: Burmese, English
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Title: Myanmar: Portraits of Diversity: U Aye Lwin (video)
Description: ""Commissioned by CPCS, Myanmar: Portraits of Diversity is a series of short films seeking to stimulate discussion and move audiences towards recognizing, accepting, and celebrating religious diversity in Myanmar. Directed by Kannan Arunasalam, the films present individuals from Myanmar?s different religious communities and highlight the inter-faith connections and engagement that take place naturally around the country. Featuring stories of cooperation across religious and ethnic divides, as well as the capacity for peace leadership within the country, community leaders share analysis and insights into the threat of inter-communal violence and illustrate the capacity for peace leadership...The film series seeks to stimulate alternative narratives regarding ethnic and spiritual issues in Myanmar where tolerance and cooperation are highlighted, rather than conflict and persecution. Screened together with guided reflections, the films can be used as tools to stimulate exchanges of ideas about diversity and tolerance, and to create a space to foster acceptance and share visions for the future. The issues raised by individuals featured in the films can be used to generate discussions on Myanmar?s different religious communities and highlight the kinds of inter-faith connections and engagement that take place naturally around the country. A discussion and study guide is available for each video portrait, followed by suggested activities that can also be adapted to different learning environments. For each film, background is provided on the person and their context, followed by five discussion questions and extension activities..."
Source/publisher: Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)
Date of publication: 2015-04-00
Date of entry/update: 2015-09-30
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Title: Myanmar: Portraits of Diversity: Venerable Tayzar Dipati (video)
Description: "Commissioned by CPCS, Myanmar: Portraits of Diversity is a series of short films seeking to stimulate discussion and move audiences towards recognizing, accepting, and celebrating religious diversity in Myanmar. Directed by Kannan Arunasalam, the films present individuals from Myanmar?s different religious communities and highlight the inter-faith connections and engagement that take place naturally around the country. Featuring stories of cooperation across religious and ethnic divides, as well as the capacity for peace leadership within the country, community leaders share analysis and insights into the threat of inter-communal violence and illustrate the capacity for peace leadership...The film series seeks to stimulate alternative narratives regarding ethnic and spiritual issues in Myanmar where tolerance and cooperation are highlighted, rather than conflict and persecution. Screened together with guided reflections, the films can be used as tools to stimulate exchanges of ideas about diversity and tolerance, and to create a space to foster acceptance and share visions for the future. The issues raised by individuals featured in the films can be used to generate discussions on Myanmar?s different religious communities and highlight the kinds of inter-faith connections and engagement that take place naturally around the country. A discussion and study guide is available for each video portrait, followed by suggested activities that can also be adapted to different learning environments. For each film, background is provided on the person and their context, followed by five discussion questions and extension activities..."
Source/publisher: Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)
Date of publication: 2015-04-00
Date of entry/update: 2015-09-30
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English and Burmese
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Title: Myanmar: Portraits of Diversity: Dr Khin Win Kyu (video)
Description: "Commissioned by CPCS, Myanmar: Portraits of Diversity is a series of short films seeking to stimulate discussion and move audiences towards recognizing, accepting, and celebrating religious diversity in Myanmar. Directed by Kannan Arunasalam, the films present individuals from Myanmar?s different religious communities and highlight the inter-faith connections and engagement that take place naturally around the country. Featuring stories of cooperation across religious and ethnic divides, as well as the capacity for peace leadership within the country, community leaders share analysis and insights into the threat of inter-communal violence and illustrate the capacity for peace leadership...The film series seeks to stimulate alternative narratives regarding ethnic and spiritual issues in Myanmar where tolerance and cooperation are highlighted, rather than conflict and persecution. Screened together with guided reflections, the films can be used as tools to stimulate exchanges of ideas about diversity and tolerance, and to create a space to foster acceptance and share visions for the future. The issues raised by individuals featured in the films can be used to generate discussions on Myanmar?s different religious communities and highlight the kinds of inter-faith connections and engagement that take place naturally around the country. A discussion and study guide is available for each video portrait, followed by suggested activities that can also be adapted to different learning environments. For each film, background is provided on the person and their context, followed by five discussion questions and extension activities..."
Source/publisher: Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)
Date of publication: 2015-04-00
Date of entry/update: 2015-09-29
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English and Burmese
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Title: Myanmar: Portraits of Diversity: Saw Poe Kwar (video)
Description: "Commissioned by CPCS, Myanmar: Portraits of Diversity is a series of short films seeking to stimulate discussion and move audiences towards recognizing, accepting, and celebrating religious diversity in Myanmar. Directed by Kannan Arunasalam, the films present individuals from Myanmar?s different religious communities and highlight the inter-faith connections and engagement that take place naturally around the country. Featuring stories of cooperation across religious and ethnic divides, as well as the capacity for peace leadership within the country, community leaders share analysis and insights into the threat of inter-communal violence and illustrate the capacity for peace leadership...The film series seeks to stimulate alternative narratives regarding ethnic and spiritual issues in Myanmar where tolerance and cooperation are highlighted, rather than conflict and persecution. Screened together with guided reflections, the films can be used as tools to stimulate exchanges of ideas about diversity and tolerance, and to create a space to foster acceptance and share visions for the future. The issues raised by individuals featured in the films can be used to generate discussions on Myanmar?s different religious communities and highlight the kinds of inter-faith connections and engagement that take place naturally around the country. A discussion and study guide is available for each video portrait, followed by suggested activities that can also be adapted to different learning environments. For each film, background is provided on the person and their context, followed by five discussion questions and extension activities..."
Source/publisher: Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)
Date of publication: 2015-04-00
Date of entry/update: 2015-09-29
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English and Burmese
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Title: Myanmar: Portraits of Diversity: U Nay Win (video)
Description: "Commissioned by CPCS, Myanmar: Portraits of Diversity is a series of short films seeking to stimulate discussion and move audiences towards recognizing, accepting, and celebrating religious diversity in Myanmar. Directed by Kannan Arunasalam, the films present individuals from Myanmar?s different religious communities and highlight the inter-faith connections and engagement that take place naturally around the country. Featuring stories of cooperation across religious and ethnic divides, as well as the capacity for peace leadership within the country, community leaders share analysis and insights into the threat of inter-communal violence and illustrate the capacity for peace leadership...The film series seeks to stimulate alternative narratives regarding ethnic and spiritual issues in Myanmar where tolerance and cooperation are highlighted, rather than conflict and persecution. Screened together with guided reflections, the films can be used as tools to stimulate exchanges of ideas about diversity and tolerance, and to create a space to foster acceptance and share visions for the future. The issues raised by individuals featured in the films can be used to generate discussions on Myanmar?s different religious communities and highlight the kinds of inter-faith connections and engagement that take place naturally around the country. A discussion and study guide is available for each video portrait, followed by suggested activities that can also be adapted to different learning environments. For each film, background is provided on the person and their context, followed by five discussion questions and extension activities..."
Source/publisher: Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)
Date of publication: 2015-04-00
Date of entry/update: 2015-09-29
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English and Burmese
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Title: With only our voices, what can we do?. (video)
Description: "Villagers in Karen areas of southeast Myanmar continue to face widespread land confiscation at the hands of a multiplicity of actors. Much of this can be attributed to the rapid expansion of domestic and international commercial interest and investment in southeast Myanmar since the January 2012 preliminary ceasefire between the Karen National Union (KNU) and the Myanmar government. KHRG first documented this in a 2013 report entitled ?Losing Ground?, which documented cases of land confiscation between January 2011 and November 2012. This report, ?With only our voices, what can we do??, is a follow up to that analysis and highlights continued issue areas while identifying newly documented trends. The present analysis assesses land confiscation according to a number of different factors, including: land use type; geographic distribution across KHRG?s seven research areas; perpetrators involved; whether or not compensation and/or consultation occurred; and the effects that confiscation had on local villagers. This report also seeks to highlight local responses to land confiscation, emphasising the agency that individuals and communities in southeast Myanmar already possess and the obstacles that they face when attempting to protect their own human rights. By focusing on local perspectives and giving priority to villagers? voices, this report aims to provide local, national, and international actors with a resource that will allow them to base policy and programmatic decisions that will impact communities in southeast Myanmar more closely on the experiences and concerns of the people living there..."
Source/publisher: Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)
Date of publication: 2015-06-30
Date of entry/update: 2015-07-15
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese, Karen, English subtitles
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Title: ?With only our voices, what can we do??: Land confiscation and local response in southeast Myanmar. - Texts, maps and video (English, Karen Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
Description: "Villagers in Karen areas of southeast Myanmar continue to face widespread land confiscation at the hands of a multiplicity of actors. Much of this can be attributed to the rapid expansion of domestic and international commercial interest and investment in southeast Myanmar since the January 2012 preliminary ceasefire between the Karen National Union (KNU) and the Myanmar government. KHRG first documented this in a 2013 report entitled ?Losing Ground?, which documented cases of land confiscation between January 2011 and November 2012. This report, ?With only our voices, what can we do??, is a follow up to that analysis and highlights continued issue areas while identifying newly documented trends. The present analysis assesses land confiscation according to a number of different factors, including: land use type; geographic distribution across KHRG?s seven research areas; perpetrators involved; whether or not compensation and/or consultation occurred; and the effects that confiscation had on local villagers. This report also seeks to highlight local responses to land confiscation, emphasising the agency that individuals and communities in southeast Myanmar already possess and the obstacles that they face when attempting to protect their own human rights. By focusing on local perspectives and giving priority to villagers? voices, this report aims to provide local, national, and international actors with a resource that will allow them to base policy and programmatic decisions that will impact communities in southeast Myanmar more closely on the experiences and concerns of the people living there."..... Toungoo (Taw Oo) District... Hpa-an District... Dooplaya District... Hpapun (Mutraw) District... Mergui-Tavoy District... Thaton (Doo Tha Htoo) District... Nyaunglebin (Kler Lwee Htoo) District...
Source/publisher: Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)
Date of publication: 2015-06-30
Date of entry/update: 2015-07-10
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English, Karen and Burmese
Format : pdf pdf pdf pdf pdf pdf pdf
Size: 5 MB 5.54 MB 2.81 MB 2.75 MB 2.67 MB 613.66 KB 949.09 KB
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Title: On The Land We Live - A film about land reform in Myanmar (video)
Description: Documentary by the Land Core Group Myanmar, where 70% of the Myanmar population are smallholder farmers, about the challenges faced by poor farmers from land grabbing and land dispossession in rural Myanmar...Interviews with land activists and dispossessed farmers in different parts of the country... sections on: resistance to land-grabbing; Myanmar land law and policies (where customary tenure and women?s land rights are not explicitly recognised); efficiency of smallholder practice...
Source/publisher: Land Core Group of the Food Security Working Group
Date of publication: 2015-03-17
Date of entry/update: 2015-03-18
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English, Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ (English voice-over and subtitles)
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Title: Burma Soldier (video)
Description: ?Burma Soldier? features a former Burmese army soldier who reminisces about life as a soldier and describes the atrocities he witnessed during his service in Kachin and Karen states. The Tatmadaw is recognized as the most brutal and repressive army in Southeast Asia, responsible for brutally suppressing pro-democracy demonstrations and clamping down on ethnic groups. The ex-soldier, Myo Myint, who now lives in the United States, offers a rare insight into the workings of the 400,000-strong Burmese Army. ...Secretly made copies of the documentary are being left in Internet shops and surreptitiously handed on to customers, according to one of the film?s directors, writer-photographer Nic Dunlop.
Creator/author: Nic Dunlop et al
Source/publisher: Vimeo
Date of entry/update: 2011-03-31
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese
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Title: "ENTRENCHED ABUSE : FORCED LABOR IN BURMA" (video)
Description: The authoritarian military regime that rules Burma - the SPDC - forces hundreds of thousands of people to work against their will, and without pay, on the regime's development projects, as porters in the military, and in other forms of compulsory labor. The International Labor Organization (ILO) - the UN agency that monitors forced labor worldwide - has identified the SPDC regime as one of the world's worst perpetrators. The incidents of forced labor in this video show how - despite its claims to the contrary - the SPDC has continued to use forced labor. They were recorded during 2003 among three different ethnic groups - the Karen, Karenni and Burmans - and in different regions of Burma...."Entrenched Abuse: Forced Labor in Burma" is a product of the video documentation and advocacy work of Burma Issues, a WITNESS partner based in Thailand. Produced by WITNESS in collaboration with Burma Issues, the video documents use of forced labor in three different areas in 2003 and offers an insight into the impossible choices facing ordinary civilians of all ethnicities under the military dictatorship in Burma.
Source/publisher: Burma Issues/Witness
Date of publication: 2004-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2009-01-14
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Karen, English subtitles
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Title: "Always on the Run -- Internally Displaced People in Karen State" (video)
Description: "An estimated 540,000 people were internally displaced in eastern Burma, on the run, or living in forced relocation sites. In the video three internally displaced people (IDPs) talk about their hopes and fears for themselves and their children and the impact that being forced to flee for their lives has on their ability to nurture and care for their families. A week after the footage was filmed the offensive reached this area and these IDPs were forced to flee, again."
Source/publisher: Burma Issues
Date of publication: 2005-02-00
Date of entry/update: 2009-01-10
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Karen, (English sub-titles)
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Title: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, speech in Burmese (video)
Description: If you can suffer, you can gain. What is valuable can not be obtained without effort. Don't depend on assistance (without strings attached) from here to there. (Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate)
Creator/author: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Source/publisher: Democratic Voice of Burma via zawmyolwin227 via Youtube
Date of publication: 2006-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2009-01-10
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese
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Title: Myanmar Wedding of Burma Than Shwe's daughter (video)
Description: In 24 parts...Full coverage...
Source/publisher: maungde via Youtube
Date of publication: 2006-11-19
Date of entry/update: 2009-01-10
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese
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Title: "Season of Fear: Internally Displaced People in Burma call for International action" (video)
Description: "This video shows the day-to-day struggle of over half a million displaced persons in eastern Burma and how displacements impacts communities and individuals. In September 2005, the Burmese military launched an offensive and displaced thousands of people in Nyaung Lay Bin and Toungoo Districts. Some villages were burnt down and some people had to cross border to take shelter in refugee camp. In the context of human rights, this should be a cause for increased international pressure on the miliary regime in Burma. The actions we and the IDPs themselves are calling for includes increase level of humanitarian aid and support to IDPs and condemnation by the international community of attacks on IDPs"
Source/publisher: Burma Issues
Date of publication: 2006-03-00
Date of entry/update: 2009-01-10
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Karen (English subtitles)
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Title: Than Shwe's daughter wedding (video)
Source/publisher: myanmars via Youtube
Date of publication: 2006-11-03
Date of entry/update: 2009-01-10
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese
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Title: Zagana's Beggars' National Convention (video)
Description: 5 sections follow each other automatically...Zagana, a famous Burmese comedian, and his team performed in 1990. Represented from DVB (Democratic Voice of Burma) in 2006. www.dvb.no
Source/publisher: Zar Ga Nar via DVB via Youtube
Date of publication: 2006-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2009-01-10
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese
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Title: Zagana's Mee Chit (video)
Description: A short film by Zagana which is banned in Burma... DVB represented in 2006 (in 3 parts)....
Source/publisher: Zar Ga Nar via DVB via Youtube
Date of publication: 2006-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2009-01-10
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese
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Title: Burma: Grace under Pressure (slide show with music and English commentary)
Description: High quality engaged photography and audio-visual presentation. A complex, compassionate, moving, poetic, meditative, slow-moving photo portrayal of people in contemporary Burma. On-screen and audio commentary by victims of military rule and on-screen quotations/commentary from Aung San Suu Kyi, Timothy Garton Ash, Rory MacLean and others. River, Street, Border (N.B. black and white), Women, Spirit. Burmese musical accompaniment. Light and shade: not a general in sight, but their shadow is present throughout. Forum, Links. Of the photographs, Henri Cartier-Bresson came to mind for the dynamic of people-environment, Edward Curtis for some of the portraits, S. Salgado...
Creator/author: Geoffrey Hillier
Source/publisher: Geoffrey Hillier
Date of publication: 2001-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English, Burmese
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