Chinese director Lu Chuan will be the lead director of the opening ceremony for the upcoming 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou city, an international sports spectacle taking place months after the Beiji…
in Hangzhou city, an international sports spectacle taking place months after the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Lu is known for films such as “Kekexili: Mountain Patrol,” “City of Life and Death,” and most recently and incongruously, the Disney nature documentary “Born in“As a film director I will bring visual ideas from the filmmaking process into the opening ceremony for these Asian Games,” said Lu.
The announcement comes amidst international concern over the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and the propagandistic value of its opening and closing ceremonies, which will allow Beijing to project an image of itself at odds with its current human rights practices in its Xinjiang region, where it is committing what the U.S. government as deemed a genocide.
He will lead a team of 17 local and foreign creatives developing the large-scale show kicking off the event. The Academy Award- and Grammy Award-winning “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” composer Tan Dun will serve as music director. He also wrote music for the 2008 medal ceremonies of the Beijing games.
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