Part 2 in C21 Media's focus on documentary directors was published today, with the attention shifting to Danish director Anders Østergaard's struggle to make the Oscar-nominated Burma VJ: Reporting From A Closed Country.
In an interview with the online publication, Østergaard talks about the difficulties of obtaining footage from such a restricted place, and how despite not filming large chunks of the film, he was still very much the director.
"There's a big element of re-enactment involved in this, which was very much organised and scripted. We are following Joshua in Thailand in re-enacted scenes. We have a number of telephone conversations that are re-enacted, although with real people, and they are reliving things that they actually went through. So to me it's as directed as anything else I've done.".
Read more here.
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