Ying Liang (; born 1977) is a Chinese independent film director and screenwriter.
Biography Ying Liang graduated from the Department of Directing at the Chongqing Film Academy and Beijing Normal University. His short film The Missing House (2003) won the best script award at the Beijing Student Film Festival, and Critics Award at the Hong Kong Independent Short Film Festival.
After the success of his short films, he directed his first feature film Taking Father Home (2005), which won awards at the Tokyo Filmex Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Film Festival.http://www.filmfest.org.sg/ Singapore International Film Festival Taking Father Home was also selected at more than 30 international film festivals including those taking place in Rotterdam, Vancouver, London, Chicago, and Fribourg.
In 2006, Ying made The Other Half, which is supported by the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) from the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The film also won the Special Jury Prize at the Tokyo Filmex Film Festival.
In 2012, When Night Falls earned him the Best Director award and Nai An won the Best Actress award at the Locarno Film Festival. In 2018, he released his autobiographical feature film A Family Tour, which debuted at the International Competition section of the Locarno Film Festival, was screened at the 56th New York Film Festival, and was the closing film at the 18th Kaohsiung Film Festival.
He was one of the part-time lecturers of Film/TV School, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and Hong Kong Baptist University. He also was one of the part-time researchers at Hong Kong Baptist University, programming for the Chinese Documentary Film Festival (Hong Kong), and one of the founders of the Chinese Independent Documentary Lab (Hong Kong).
Filmography
As director YearEnglish titleChinese titleNotes2005Taking Father Home背鸭子的男孩2006The Other Half另一半2008Good Cats好猫2009CondolencesShort film2012When Night Falls2016A Sunny DayShort film2017I Have Nothing to SayShort film2018A Family Tour自由行
Awards Woosuk Award at the Jeonju International Film Festival for The Other Half 2007 Special Jury Award at the Singapore International Film Festival for The Other Half 2007 The Special Jury Prize Kodak VISION Award at Tokyo Filmex Film Festival for The Other Half 2006 SKYY Prize for First Feature at the San Francisco International Film Festival for Taking Father Home 2006 Golden Digital Award at the Hong Kong International Film Festival for Taking Father Home 2006 FIPRESCI Prize at the Singapore International Film Festival for Taking Father Home 2006 Special Mention NETPAC Award at the Singapore International Film Festival for Taking Father Home 2006 Special Jury Prize at the Tokyo Filmex Film Festival for Taking Father Home 2005 Best Live Action Short Film at the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards for A Sunny Day《九月二十八日·晴》 2016 NETPAC Award at the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema for A Family Tour 2019
References
External links
An interview with Ying Liang, director of Good Cats with David Walsh on the World Socialist Web Site