Ning Ying
Directing
- Born
- October 23, 1959 (age 67) · Beijing - China
Born in Beijing in 1959, Ning Ying was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy in 1978 together with many of the filmmakers of China’s Fifth Generation. She left China for Italy in 1980 and completed her film training at the Rome Film Experimental Academy in 1986. After returning to China in 1987, she worked as Bernardo Bertolucci’s assistant director for The Last Emperor. She made her directorial debut with Someone Loves Just Me, and then directed her “Beijing Trilogy”: For Fun, On the Beat, and I Love Beijing. Together, the films are an analysis of the massive changes that China’s national capital had undergone over the previous decades. Ning started venturing into documentaries with a series of shorts for UNICEF. Her first feature-length documentary Railroad of Hope, which follows the mass migration of cheap labor between Sichuan and Xinjiang, won the Grand Prize at the 2002 Cinema du Réel festival in Paris.
Known for
The Last Emperor
October 4, 1987
I Love Beijing
January 29, 2001
For Fun
September 1, 1993
On the Beat
September 8, 1995
The Case of the Silver Snake
January 1, 1988
Railroad of Hope
December 9, 2002
The Double Life
April 30, 2010
Perpetual Motion
September 10, 2005
Kung Fu Man
June 1, 2012
Romance Out Of The Blue
October 23, 2015
Commune by the Great Wall
July 17, 2002
To Live and Die in Ordos
October 19, 2013
Behind the camera17
- 2020Father Producer
- 2015Romance Out Of The Blue Director
- 2013To Live and Die in Ordos Writer, Director
- 2012Kung Fu Man Director
- 2010Unwordly Director
- 2010The Double Life Director
- 2005Perpetual Motion Director
- 2003Looking for a Job in the City Writer, Director
- 2002Railroad of Hope Director
- 2002Commune by the Great Wall