| 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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Running time | 29 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
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]
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]
