Title
Ai Weiwei : never sorry / Sundance Selects ; United Expression Media presents in association with MUSE Film and Television ; a film by Alison Klayman ; filmed and directed by Alison Klayman ; produced by Alison Klayman, Adam Schlesinger ; executive producers, Karl Katz, Julie Goldman, Andrew Cohen ; Never Sorry LLC.
Publication
[Orland, Park, Ill.] : MPI Media Group, [2012]
Notes
Bonus: Filmmaker commentary; Deleted scenes; Interviews; Trailer.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2011.
Edited by Jen Fineran ; original music by Ilan Isakov ; cinematographer, Alison Klayman.
English and Mandarin dialogue with optional English SDH, simplified Chinese or Spanish subtitles.
Sundance Special Jury Prize.
Summary
This is a documentary that chronicles artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he prepares for a series of exhibitions and gets into an increasing number of clashes with the Chinese government. Follows Ai "from the close of the 2008 Beijing Olympics (for which he helped design the acclaimed 'Bird's Nest' stadium) to his arrest and 81-day detention in 2011" (container).
Performers
Ai Weiwei, Chen Danqing, Gao Ying, Ai Dan, Ai Lao, Lee Ambrozy, Ethan Cohen, Feng Boyi, Gu Changwei, He Yunchang, Hsieh Tehching, Huang Kankan, Hung Huang, Li Zhanyang, Liu Yanping, Lu Qing, Evan Osnos, RongRong, Karen Smith, Philip Tinari, Wang Fen, Inserk Yang, Zhang Hongtu, Zuoxiao Zuzhou.