Los Angeles—A documentary film capturing clashes between antigovernment demonstrators and the junta in Myanmar in 2007 was nominated Tuesday as a contender for the 82nd Annual Academy Award for documentary feature, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science said.Footage taken by Japanese video journalist Kenji Nagai, who was shot dead in Yangon in September 2007 during a clash, is also included in the film, “Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country.”

The documentary, filmed by Danish filmmaker Jan Krogsgaard, won some film awards including the Amnesty Award at the 2008 Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival and the World Cinema Documentary Editing Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

Among the four other nominations in the documentary feature category is “the Cove,” which tried to reveal brutality of dolphin hunting in the Japanese village of Taiji by using hidden cameras in barred areas.

The Academy Awards will be presented March 7.