Filmmaker · China
Ning Ying
Ning Ying was born in Beijing in 1959. In 1978 she entered the Beijing Film Academy, in the first class admitted after its reopening, that of Zhang Yimou, Tian Zhuangzhuang and Chen Kaige, and then went to study in Italy at the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia. There she met Bernardo Bertolucci, whose assistant she was. Back in China, she made three films about Beijing, then documentaries and fiction films, often written with her sister, the screenwriter Ning Dai.