In the din of screaming Anti-Beijing Olympics protesters, here at Ground Zero in San Francisco, our beloved city full of street potholes, potheads, and crackpots, the poignant story of a Chinese documentary filmmaker, trying to focus on the athletes and world Olympians, got frustrated.
Filmmaker Weimin Zhang, 40, born in Beijing, is heading the American unit of the crew filming the official feature documentary on the Beijing 2008 Olympics. The four other units are fanned out across the globe, shooting in Iran, Indonesia, Germany, Sweden and across Africa.
She teaches at San Francisco State University; and she is one of the many silent voices behind the largely ignored narrative at the San Francisco leg of the torch relay working from behind the scene to try to capture the moment.
Instead, through the "protest lenses" of many of the biased Western news media "ratpacks," bent on staging, directing, promoting, and amplifying their "Ambush China" script, the stories of the Olympians, from all over the world, including many American athletes, got muffled, censored, if not, completely ignored.
Her frustration showed through. And to her credit, she felt that after all the hooh-hah is over, the San Francisco protests damaged the image of San Francisco as an open city in the eyes of the world. Read on her story at the following URL link:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/16/DDH8103LMM.DTL
