A film about underground reporters who risk their lives to document political repression in Burma has turned out to be the big winner at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in the southeastern U.S. state of North Carolina.

Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country - won in three categories at the festival, the most for any entry.  

Burma VJ,  which was directed by Andreas Ostergaard, captured the "Grand Jury Award."   The film also won the "Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award" and the "Full Frame/Working Films Award" at the three-day festival that ended on April 5.

The film festival, in the city of Durham, is an annual international event.  Organizers say it is dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of non-fiction cinema.

The other films honored include Unmistaken Child, which is about the search for the reincarnation of a Tibetan mediator and Love on Delivery, a story about a woman's efforts to help Thai women find Danish husbands.