Please Join Us Online
for an Encore Edition!

FEBRUARY 1–13

Streaming Over 40 Films

plus Live Speaker Sessions
Including Burma Activists and Exiles

Burma Spring Benefit Film Festival (BSBFF) streamed online from June 4-20, 2021 and raised nearly US$50,000 in generous audience donations. The funds were distributed to grassroots organizations doing much needed humanitarian work in Burma/Myanmar.

But the military still rules the country— seizing and holding political prisoners (including leading democratically elected government officials), and violently suppressing any resistance. Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to prison just last month in a widely condemned and flawed judicial process. There are ongoing and worsening refugee crises on the borders, and government strikes continue against the ethnic states…much work still needs to be done.

An Encore Edition of the BSBFF with added films and new speaker panels will stream online February 1–13, 2022, exactly one year since the coup, to bring new attention to the suffering in the country, and to raise more much needed money for trusted civil society groups in Myanmar. These provide humanitarian assistance in Chin, Kachin, Karen, Karenni, and Shan states—poor, ethnic areas most severely impacted by food insecurity and emergency shelter needs. Support will also go to freelance media and non-violent activists forced into Thailand.

You can help by signing up for an All-Access Pass with a donation of any amount (suggested donation is US$30, but no one turned away for lack of funds).

Buddhist Film Foundation
serves as the fiscal sponsor for the
Burma Spring Benefit Film Festival.

Community partners (partial list):
Artists Beyond Boundaries, Better Burma, BuddhaFest, Buddhist Action Coalition, Buddhist Film Foundation, Burma Humanitarian Mission, Chobo-ji Zen Temple Seattle, Cinemata, Clear View Project, Code Refactory, Documentary Educational Resources, Earth Rights International, Engage Media, Ethical Traveler, Frame of Mind Films, Gandhi-King Global Network, Human Rights Center (UCB), Inquiring Mind, Insight LA, Insight Meditation Society, Institute for Asian Democracy, International Cultural Activism Institute, International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB), Kachin Alliance, Kino Lorber, Kirana Productions, Lion’s Roar, Never Again Coalition, One Myanmar Community, Oscilloscope, Refugee and Immigrant Transitions, Refugees International, Sakse, Shoot Cameras Not Guns, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Tricycle Foundation, UCB South and Southeast Asian Dept., United Nations Association Film Festival, U.S. Campaign for Burma, Zen Peacemakers International, ZINdoc, and others.