Thailand Foreign Correspondents’ Club :Invitation” Burma Soldier: Documentary Screening and Talk”
A private screening and talk with Nic Dunlop, one of three directors of this new HBO documentary.
“Burma Soldier” is a powerful and positive film set against the impossibility of military might and persecution. It is the story of the individual against the state, at a time when people are more in danger from their own governments than ever before. It is also the profoundly moving story of a life in transition.
John Jackson, founder and former director of Burma Campaign UK said: “Myo Myint’s journey brings to life, even for those who have been intimately involved with Burma for decades, something that a few might understand intellectually, but are rarely exposed to emotionally. It’s truly an epic journey that he’s taken, but you feel nevertheless that his is just one of many, which adds to its power. It really does reveal the human story behind the headlines, gets under the skin and carries you along with it.”
Nic Dunlop is a photographer who has been based in Bangkok for about 20 years. He is best known perhaps as the man “who found Duch”, the Khmer Rouge executioner, on the Thai-Cambodian border in 1999. His book ‘The Lost Executioner’ describes that very significant event, which led to Duch’s prosecution by a UN-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh last year. Nic has also spent years documenting the fighting along the Thai-Burma border. He will attend to talk and answer questions about the film.
“Burma Soldier” is a co-production between multiple award winners Break-Thru films in New York (“The Devil Came in Horseback”), and LeBrocquy Fraser Productions in Ireland (“Osama”). The 70-minute film, directed by Dunlop, Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern, is narrated by Colin Farrell with music by U2.
Note: This is a private screening before the film debuts on HBO in May.
