You can do it in Java as follows.
Mongo mongo = new Mongo("localhost:27017");
DB db = mongo.getDB("myDB");
DBCollection coll = db.getCollection("myCollection");
DBObject statusQuery = new BasicDBObject("status", true);
DBObject elemMatchQuery = new BasicDBObject("$elemMatch", statusQuery);
DBObject fields = new BasicDBObject();
fields.put("items", elemMatchQuery);
fields.put("name", 1);
fields.put("config", 1);
DBCursor cur = coll.find(new BasicDBObject(), fields);
while (cur.hasNext()) {
DBObject obj = cur.next();
// Get fields from object
}