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Artist...: -
Title....: Yangon.Calling

Release..: 02.09.2014

Genre....: Punk
Label....: Fly Fast Publishing

Source...: DVD

Playtime.: 60 min

Video....: 720x394 @ 1.85:1 @ 25 FPS
Bitrate..: 1830

Audio....: 128kbps vbr aac-lc 2.0 @ 48.0 KHz

Notes:  -crf21 due to bad compression



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r e l e a s e . n o t e s

Yangon Calling is a documentary movie about the
Burmese Punk Rock underground, directed by Berlin
based filmmakers Alexander Dluzak and CarstenPiefke.
For young Burmese, punk provides a way to stand up
against the pressures they have to face in their
day-to-day lives. In the 90's, sailors brought the
first punk rock cassettes into the isolated country.
Since then a scene with several hundred followers
has emerged in Yangon.

Over the course of six weeks, the filmmakers accompanied
a group of notable punks to their homes, met their friends
and families, went along with them to work in a tailor
shop and tattoo studio, checked out their rehearsal rooms
and hung at secret concerts. They spoke with punks who
had sat in jail and fought their frustrations with heroin.
Yangon Calling is a film about life, about personal tragedy
and the struggle for freedom.

Alexander Dluzak (*1976 in Hamburg/Germany) lives as a filmmaker
and TV journalist in Berlin and Tokyo. He specializes in reporting
about art, music and subculture, with a strong focus on Asia.
Carsten Piefke (*1970 in Berlin/Germany) lives as a filmmaker and
video editor in his hometown Berlin. He has directed three
documentary movies and edited countless movies about cultural topics.


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