On Thursday 7 July 2011 the Burma subgroup of Amnesty International Edinburgh St Marks is proud to be announcing a showing of the astounding feature documentary ‘They Call it Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain’ at the Cameo Cinema on Home Street, Edinburgh. The film will showing for one night only at 6.30pm and stars Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi.
This feature-length film was shot clandestinely over a two year period by best-selling novelist and filmmaker Robert H. Lieberman while he worked for the US Embassy in Burma. A rare interview with Aung San Suu Kyi, newly released after 15 years of house arrest, is interwoven with stunning images of a country that has been held hostage and isolated by a brutal and superstitious military regime for 48 years. The result is an astonishing and evocative portrait of a country once called Burma, a place that is a mystery to much of the world.
Ambassador Ken Brill from The Fund For Peace said of the film:
“Robert Lieberman’s film does more than “lift the veil.” It opens our eyes to
the history and beauty of Burma and its people, and makes tangible the deeply moving tragedy of the Burmese people’s daily life. Through Lieberman’s camera and narrative, we see clearly that Burma is a state that is failing its people and the regime’s clear and longstanding responsibility for that failure. If you did not care or think about Burma before seeing this film, you will be unable to stop caring about Burma after seeing it.”
Amnesty International St Marks Edinburgh would like to invite people to take this opportunity to care about Burma and to share in an evening of evocative insight into Burmese life.
For more information on this extraordinary film please follow the below link:
www.theycallitmyanmar.com
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