The documentary Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country, which was nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, never played in Indianapolis (though we will have it available for purchase on DVD, sometime next month), and I’m not sure that it has ever been screened here, either. That will change, however, on June 18th, 2010, when the film will screen at the Central Library downtown as part of a fundraiser for Exodus Refugee Immigration, an outfit that helps refugees transition to a new life here in Indiana. For the bargain basement price of $20, you get to see the film and attend a question and answer session afterwards.
The phrase “Live simply so that others may simply live” has really begun to resonate with me in recent years, especially when I read an article in Newsweek or TIME or hear a BBC report on NPR about any of the billions - literally, billions - of people in the world who have no choice but to do their best to get by on so little that most people in America have no real way to comprehend how rich we are in relation to the rest of the world. I’m not against having “stuff,” but I also think it’s a good idea to stop every now and then and really think about how much of that stuff we actually need in order to lead a happy and fulfilling life.
Click here for tickets to the screening event. Exodus also has one of those fancy Facebook pages, and there is an astonishing aggregation of information available at the Online Burma Library.
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