Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square

Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square
Directed by Shui-Bo Wang
Produced by Don McWilliams
Narrated by Shui-Bo Wang
Cinematography Pierre Landry
Lynda Pelley
Edited by Don McWilliams
Distributed by National Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • October 16, 1998 (1998-10-16)
Running time
 29 minutes
Country Canada
Language English

Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square (French: Le jour se lève sur la place Tienanmen) is a 1998 National Film Board of Canada short animated documentary directed by Shui-Bo Wang. It is an autobiography about the director's life, career and ultimate disillusionment with The People's Republic of China. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short, losing to The Personals.[1][2]

Other honours for the film included the Gemini Award for Best History/Biography Documentary program and the award for Best Short Documentary at Hot Docs.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "The 71st Academy Awards (1999) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
  2. ↑ "NY Times: Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square". NY Times. Retrieved December 6, 2008.
  3. ↑ "Awards". National Film Board of Canada Web site. Retrieved August 26, 2009.


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