Amnesty International On Campus This Prison Where I Live

Introduction from NZ Comedy icon - Raybon Kan

FILM SCREENING OF BRITISH ACADEMY AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR, REX BLOOMSTEIN'S, 'THIS PRISON WHERE I LIVE'

LIVE INTRODUCTION BY RAYBON KAN

Sometimes a sense of humour... can be a dangerous thing.

In his third feature length documentary we follow director Rex Bloomstein and world renound comedian, Michael Mittermeier, as they risk arrest, imprisonment, torture and worse by entering the media-closed country of Myanmar seeking answers to how and why the country's premiere film star, comedian and 'voice of the people', Zarganar, was imprisoned for 59 years for telling satirical jokes about the military government.

As Bloomstein and Mittermeier get closer to Zarganar and begin to unveil the truth surrounding his fate they also begin to draw the suspicions of the country's secret police and a desperate struggle to complete their film and escape with the outlawed footage begins.

A heart-warming, powerful and urgently important film, 'This Prison Where I Live' gives a voice to a nation silenced by 50 years of military rule.

Proceeds to Amnesty International.

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