Dream Weavers: Beijing 2008 (2008)

Name: Dream Weavers: Beijing 2008
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2008-06-28

1h 34m

Running Time

Plot.

A documentary shot over the course of five years telling five stories in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics: the construction of the Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium, Gold medal hopeful & Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang, the selection of the Chinese women's gymnastics team, the training of the Beijing SWAT team, and the story one of the 4000 families relocated to make room for the Olympic Athlete's Village.

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Cast & Crew.

Liu Xiang

Jiang Yuyuan

Pierre De Meuron

Self

Deng Linlin

Gu Jun

Director

Gao Feng

Executive Producer

Jacques Herzog

Self

Shigeru Umebayashi

Composer

Ding Xiao

Composer

Weimin Zhang

Cinematographer

Wen Feng

Editor

Media.

Details.

Release Date
June 28, 2008

Original Name
筑梦2008

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 34m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-01-02

Wiki.

Dream Weavers: Beijing 2008 is a 2008 Chinese documentary film directed by Jun Gu. The film, which focuses on Beijing's preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics, was selected as China's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 81st Academy Awards. The film received the Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking at the 2009 Newport Beach Film Festival.