Ning Ying

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Ning.

Ning Ying
Chinese name	寧瀛 (Traditional)
Chinese name	宁瀛 (Simplified)
Pinyin	Níng Yíng (Mandarin)
Origin	People's Republic of China
Born	1959 Beijing
Occupation	Film director
Awards Golden Montgolfiere 1993 For Fun Grand Prix du Cinema du Reel 2002 Railroad of Hope

Ning Ying (simplified Chinese: 宁瀛; traditional Chinese: 寧瀛; pinyin: Nìng Yíng; born 1959 in Beijing) is a female Chinese film director often considered a member of China's "Sixth Generation" filmmaker coterie,^[1] a group that also includes Jia Zhangke, Zhang Yuan and Wang Xiaoshuai. However, this is more a result of a shared subject matter than anything else, as chronologically, Ning is closer to the earlier Fifth Generation.^[2] Her sister, the screenwriter Ning Dai, is a frequent collaborator and the wife of fellow director Zhang Yuan.

Directorial career

Part of the first class to reenter the Beijing Film Academy in 1978 (along with Fifth Generation helmers Zhang Yimou, Tian Zhuangzhuang and Chen Kaige), Ning Ying's career veered away from the path of her male counterparts when she was allowed to study abroad in Italy's Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.^[1] While in Italy, she met Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, whom she would act as an assistant director for in the 1987 epic The Last Emperor.^[1]

Her own career first reached international prominence with 1993's For Fun (also known as Looking for Fun), which would become the first of Ning Ying's "Beijing Trilogy," a loosely tied grouping of films that all take place in Beijing — the other two films being the black comedy, On the Beat and the drama, I Love Beijing. Together, the films are an analysis of the massive changes that China's national capital has undergone in the recent decades.^[1]

In 2003, the trilogy was shown in its entirety by the Harvard Film Archive in an event touted as "From China with Love: The Films of Ning Ying."^[3]

Ning followed her Beijing trilogy with a full-length documentary, Railroad of Hope in 2002, which followed the mass migration of cheap labor throughout China. The film managed to win the Grand Prix du Cinema du Reel in 2002.^[1]

In 2005, she made Perpetual Motion, which premiered in several major film festivals, notably Venice and Toronto.

Filmography

Year	English Title	Chinese Title	Notes
1990	Someone Loves Just Me	有人偏偏爱上我
1993	For Fun	找乐	Golden Montgolfiere at the 1993 Nantes Three Continents Festival
1995	On the Beat	民警故事
2001	I Love Beijing	夏日暖洋洋
2002	Railroad of Hope	希望之旅	Grand Prix du Cinema du Reel
2005	Perpetual Motion	无穷动

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Zhang Zhen (Spring 2004). "Woman with a Movie Camera: Ning Ying’s cinematic visions document a rapidly changing China". Nieman Reports. http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/04-1NRSpring/84-85V58N1.pdf. Retrieved 2008-03-28. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ Kochan, Dror (September 2003). "Wang Xiaoshuai". Senses of Cinema. Archived from the original on 2008-02-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20080209231703/http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/wang.html. Retrieved 2008-03-28. 
3. ^ "From China with Love: The Films of Ning Ying". Harvard Film Archive. http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2003fall/ying.html. Retrieved 2008-03-28. 

External links

• Ning Ying at the Internet Movie Database
• Ning Ying at AllRovi
• Ning Ying at the Chinese Movie Database

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Date of birth	1959
Place of birth	Beijing
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