HONG KONG -- A child cries out as military police arrive to take away his mother; a body lies prone on the pavement after being savagely beaten; a middle-aged woman berates a truck full of young paramilitaries, telling them her son is their age and they should know better. These are some of the distressing and at times macabre scenes from a documentary made in Myanmar at great risk by an anonymous group of filmmakers, calling themselves the Myanmar Film Collective (MFC).
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A still from "Myanmar Diaries." To make the documentary, an anonymous group of filmmakers called the Myanmar Film Collective collected raw footage that had been filmed by citizens on the streets and combined it with reconstructions of events experienced by members of the collective or their family and friends. (All photos courtesy of the Myanmar Film Collective)
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