Peter Hiscocks
The work of the Thomson Foundation in training on the ground lay behind the internationally-acclaimed documentary nominated for an Oscar award.
The movie Burma VJ has already won more than 40 awards worldwide and tells the story of the video journalists working undercover in Burma who brought extraordinary pictures of the uprising in September 2007 to the world. It was a strong contender for Best Documentary Feature at Hollywood’s 2010 Academy Awards.
But the extraordinary risks faced by this band of journalists began before violence broke out in their home country. For they were smuggled out of Burma to be trained in a secret operation by Thomson Foundation senior consultant Peter Hiscocks.
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