Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square

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.[1][2]

Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square
Directed byShui-Bo Wang
Produced byDon McWilliams
Narrated byShui-Bo Wang
CinematographyPierre Landry
Lynda Pelley
Edited byDon McWilliams
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • October 16, 1998 (1998-10-16)
Running time
29 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

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,[3] and the award for Best Short Documentary at Hot Docs.[4]

References
  1. "The 71st Academy Awards (1999) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
  2. "NY Times: Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on October 16, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2008.
  3. "Our Collcection: Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square". National Film Board of Canada. 1998. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
  4. "Awards". National Film Board of Canada Web site. Retrieved August 26, 2009.


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