Ning Ying
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 23, 1959
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
Father 2020
Producer
Romance Out Of The Blue 2015
Director
To Live and Die in Ordos 2013
Writer, Director
Kung Fu Man 2012
Director
Unwordly 2010
Director
The Double Life 2010
Director
Perpetual Motion 2005
Director
- Looking for a Job in the City
Looking for a Job in the City 2003
Writer, Director
Railroad of Hope 2002
Director
Commune by the Great Wall 2002
Director
I Love Beijing 2001
Director, Writer, Editor
Duling - Turin 1996
Writer, Director
On the Beat 1995
Director, Editor, Screenplay
For Fun 1993
Director, Writer
Someone Loves Just Me 1990
Director
The Case of the Silver Snake 1988
Assistant Director
The Last Emperor 1987
Assistant Director
Credits from TMDB.