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Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square (1998)

29m

Running Time

Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square (1998)

Name: Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square
Genre: Documentary, Animation
Released: 1998-10-16

29m

Running Time

October 16, 1998
Release Date

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Plot.

This film illustrates the life of the film director, Shui-Bo Wang in The People's Republic of China. We learn of the life of the director in his own words and images from a child steeped in the values of Chinese communism exemplified by Chairman Mao, to a young man striving to live up to those ideals both as an artist and a soldier.

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Cast & Crew.

Shui-Bo Wang

Narrator / Director / Art Designer

Don McWilliams

Editor / Producer

Pierre Landry

Director of Photography

Lynda Pelley

Director of Photography

Jean-Paul Vialard

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Carrol Smith

Administration

Karen Feiertag

Assistant Sound Editor

David Verrall

Executive Producer

Yu Li

Title Designer

Melissa Hui

Original Music Composer

Gisèle Guilbault

Administration

Claudine Blain

Negative Cutter

Donald McWilliams

Sound Editor

Barrie McLean

Producer / Executive Producer

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Details.

Release Date
October 16, 1998

Status
Released

Running Time
29m

Genres
Documentary Animation

Last updated: 2024-11-01

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Wiki.

Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square (French: Le jour se lève sur la place Tienanmen) is a 1998 short animated documentary directed by Shui-Bo Wang and distributed by the National Film Board of Canada. It is an autobiography about the director's life, career and ultimate disillusionment with the Chinese Communist Party. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short, but lost to The Personals.

Other honours for the film included the Gemini Award for Best History/Biography Documentary program, the Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award for Best Documentary Short Subject, and the award for Best Short Documentary at Hot Docs.