With just 100-plus days away to the Olympic Games and the domestic torch relay getting geared up, a series of sports films and film festivals will be staged to inspire atmosphere of Olympics-craze within the host country.
Poster of "The One Man Olympics" |
A press conference hosted by the State Administration of Radio Film and Television on Friday unveiled the schedule of activities, which consist of sports film shows along the domestic torch relay route, sports video contests and an international sports film week in Beijing.
The Beijing sports film week will kick off with a TV gala show on June 28 with sports and film stars and Olympic torch bearers taking part, followed by the screening of a documentary called "Building 2008" the next day.
The documentary, which took seven years to finish, features the National Stadium, or the Bird's Nest as the theme. There are chronological stories of the people related to the stadium, like the former residents of the site who were relocated, the athletes who will compete in the stadium, and those who work on building and guarding the stadium.
Poster of "Mai Mai Ti's 2008" |
More than 20 new domestic films and a few foreign ones with the sports theme will be shown during the week, including "Kung Fu Dunk" starred by Jay Chou and "The One Man Olympics" featuring China's first Olympian runner Liu Changchun, who was the only Chinese athlete at the Los Angeles 1932 Olympics.
However, Beijing is not alone in enjoying the films. Some of them will accompany the Olympic torch around China in 21 cities with public activities coinciding with the event.
A film called "Mai Mai Ti's 2008" telling a story of a Uygur boy who plays football and dreams of attending the Olympic opening ceremony, will be shown on June 25, the day when the torch arrives at Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
In addition, China Film Archive will show some documentaries featuring China's experience at international sports events since the 1960s in the hope of finding the people who appeared in the documentaries, as they were witnesses to these events.
