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Ning Ying
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 1…
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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.
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2020
Father
Movie Producer
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2015
Romance Out Of The Blue
Movie Director
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2013
To Live and Die in Ordos
Movie Writer
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2012
Kung Fu Man
Movie Director
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2010
Unwordly
Movie Director
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2010
The Double Life
Movie Director
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2005
Perpetual Motion
Movie Director
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2003
Looking for a Job in the City
Movie Writer
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2002
Railroad of Hope
Movie Director
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2002
Commune by the Great Wall
Movie Director
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2001
I Love Beijing
Movie Director
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1996
Duling - Turin
Movie Writer
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1995
On the Beat
Movie Director
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1993
For Fun
Movie Director
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1990
Someone Loves Just Me
Movie Director
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1988
The Case of the Silver Snake
Movie Assistant Director
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1987
The Last Emperor
Movie Assistant Director
