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Stunning Portrait of a Man by Shui-Bo Wang

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Stunning charcoal portrait of a man by Shui-Bo Wang

Born in China on September 11th, 1960, Wang Shui-bo studied visual arts at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in the early 1980s. After his graduation in 1985 he taught at the same university as an assistant professor. For further development, he came to Canada as a graduate student in the fall of 1989. He began his career in film assisting world famous Canadian animator Fredric Back on his last film, the Academy Award-nominated The Mighty River.Wang Shui-bo’s Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square artfully traces his roots and his own life of journey as he struggles to sort through ideology and arrive a truth. It has won the Oscar Nomination for Best Short Documentary in 1999 while it got the highest scores of nomination with high evaluation from the jury who commented that it has made a revolutionary experiment in the style of documentaries.