Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square | |
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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 |
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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.
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.