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Public Screening of "They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain"

Cetana Educational Foundation
“They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain,” Robert Lieberman’s 2012 documentary on Burma, will be presented on April 2 at 7:30 p.m. in McCosh Hall 50 on the Princeton University campus. The New York Times called this 88-minute documentary “a timely exposition of a little-known country.”
Novelist, filmmaker, and Cornell physics lecturer Robert Lieberman went to Myanmar (Burma) in 2008 to teach filmmaking under a Fulbright program. He started filming just as the democratic movement in that impoverished and oppressed land was getting underway. The film intersperses travelogue, historical footage, an interview with Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, and explanatory narration to tell Burma’s story—a flourishing British colony that gained independence in 1948 only to be isolated from the world by a military coup in 1962.
Now one of the world’s poorest nations, Burma is currently in the midst of political, social, and economic reforms that could transform the country. The United States has eased many of the sanctions against the Burmese government. President Obama’s visit two weeks after his reelection was the first visit to Burma by a serving American head-of-state.
Princeton in Asia (piaweb.princeton.edu) and Cetana Educational Foundation (www.cetana.org) are cosponsoring this event. Princeton in Asia is a nonprofit, Princeton University-affiliated program that provides service-oriented experiences in Asia to young graduates and older adults. It has recently started sending program fellows to Burma. Cetana Educational Foundation is a local not-for-profit that has provided educational opportunities to young people in Burma for more than 20 years. There is a suggested donation of $10 adults/$5 students for the event. All proceeds will benefit Cetana educational programs.