Van Ling
Visual Effects
Van Ling is a visual effects supervisor, film producer and creator of DVD menus for many popular movies, including the Star Wars DVDs.
Ling graduated summa cum laude from the USC School of Cinema-Television. He began his career as a visual effects supervisor for The Abyss and became head of production on Lightstorm Entertainment, for which he continued with many major motion pictures and television, including Titanic, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Walking Dead, Starship Troopers, Dr. Dolittle, Vanilla Sky and many others.[3] He had a brief cameo in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic, as the Chinese man, who was in real-life, a Chinese passenger booked under the name of Fang Lang (original name Wing Sun Fong, 方榮山), whom Fifth Officer Harold Lowe rescued from the sea.
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Van is also an active member of the Visual Effect Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Producers Guild of America and the Visual Effects Society, the latter in which he served six terms as Board of Directors.
He wrote and directed Cliffs of Freedom, an indie drama film starring Christopher Plummer, Billy Zane, Lance Henriksen, Tania Raymonde, Jan Uddin, Raza Jaffrey, Patti LuPone, Costas Mandylor, and Kevin Corrigan.
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Known for
Titanic
December 18, 1997
Men in Black
July 2, 1997
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
July 3, 1991
Starship Troopers
November 7, 1997
The Abyss
August 9, 1989
Doctor Dolittle
June 26, 1998
Not Another Teen Movie
December 7, 2001
Stir of Echoes
September 10, 1999
Soldier
October 23, 1998
Deep Rising
January 30, 1998
Last Man Standing
June 7, 2011
Cliffs of Freedom
March 1, 2019
Behind the camera17
- 2019Cliffs of Freedom Director, Screenplay
- 2011Last Man Standing Visual Effects Supervisor
- 2003No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects Director, Producer
- 2001Not Another Teen Movie Visual Effects Supervisor
- 2001Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator' Director, Producer, Editor, Title Graphics
- 1999Stir of Echoes Visual Effects Supervisor
- 1998Soldier Visual Effects Supervisor
- 1998Doctor Dolittle Visual Effects Supervisor
- 1998Deep Rising Visual Effects Supervisor