About

Known credits:
25
Birthday:
1959-10-23
Place of birth:
Beijing - China
Website:
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Ning Ying

Overview

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

Directing
2015 Romance Out Of The Blue Directing Director 58
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2013 To Live and Die in Ordos Directing Director N/A
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2012 Kung Fu Man Directing Director N/A
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2010 Unwordly Directing Director N/A
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2010 The Double Life Directing Director 59
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2005 Perpetual Motion Directing Director 59
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2003 Looking for a Job in the City Directing Director N/A
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2002 Railroad of Hope Directing Director 58
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2002 Commune by the Great Wall Directing Director N/A
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2001 I Love Beijing Directing Director 58
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1996 Duling - Turin Directing Director N/A
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1995 On the Beat Directing Director 59
Average
1993 For Fun Directing Director 59
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1990 Someone Loves Just Me Directing Director N/A
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1988 The Case of the Silver Snake Directing Assistant Director 59
Average
1987 The Last Emperor Directing Assistant Director 72
Good

Writing
2013 To Live and Die in Ordos Writing Writer N/A
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2003 Looking for a Job in the City Writing Writer N/A
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2001 I Love Beijing Writing Writer 58
Average
1996 Duling - Turin Writing Writer N/A
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1995 On the Beat Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1993 For Fun Writing Writer 59
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Production
2020 Father Production Producer N/A
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Editing
2001 I Love Beijing Editing Editor 58
Average
1995 On the Beat Editing Editor 59
Average