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Boomtown Beijing is a film about the city of Beijing, its people and their dreams the summer before the Olympics.

The 2008 Olympics Games is china’s debutante ball on the world stage. “ Faster. Higher. Stronger” — the preparation for the Games has turned Beijing into a hot spot of frenzied growth. A 11 year old boy wants to beat the odds to become an Olympics torch-bearer. A road sweeper dreams of staging his own mass Olympics countdown performance. An aging blind athlete makes one last stab at a Paralympics medal before he retires from sports. Together, their stories and scenes of everyday life in the city give a snapshot of Beijing the summer before the Olympics.

Event details:
Date : Wed 30 April 2008 (100 days countdown to Olympics)
Time: 7:30pm — 9:30pm
Place: 与食巨近 the New Passby Restaurant
Add: 114 Nanluoguxiang, Dongcheng District, Beijing
Ticket: 50 RMB per person. All proceeds are donated to the Library Project, a charity that builds libraries for rural elementary school students.

Tags: boomtown, nanluoguxiang, passby