Total Denial.

"Total Denial is, to put it lightly, a niche film," writes Julia Wallace in the Voice. "Directed, produced, and edited by the Bulgarian journalist Milena Kaneva, it tells the story of human-rights abuses committed by the Burmese military on behalf of Unocal, an American oil company laying a pipeline there."

"Its central figure, Ka Hsaw Wa, is the stuff heroes are made of (even if the film only narrowly escapes overglorifying him)," writes Laura Kern in the New York Times. "Documentaries like Total Denial are less interested in exhibiting a particular filmmaking style than in telling stories that cry out to be heard."

Posted by dwhudson at October 26, 2007 8:24 AM