Ying Ning

Ning Ying is a prominent Chinese director, screenwriter and producer based in Beijing. She has been defined by Harvard's Nieman Reports as "China's premiere woman director," and Peter Keough from The Boston Phoenix refers her as "one of her country's major talents." She graduated from Beijing Film Academy and then from Italy's National Film School. While studying in Rome she befriended Bernardo Bertolucci; he later hired her as assistant director for THE LAST EMPEROR. She completed a fellowship at Harvard University and was awarded to the Order of the Star of Italy for excellence in the arts. The Peace Women Across the Globe Association nominated her among 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1990 she directed her first film, the comedy blockbuster SOMEONE LOVES JUST ME, soon followed by her internationally acclaimed "Beijing Trilogy": FOR FUN/1992, ON THE BEAT/1995 and I LOVE BEIJING/2000. According to Harvard's Nieman Report, it represents "both a historical document of the tra