| Ying Liang | |||||||||
| Birth Date: | 1977 | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | Shanghai, China | ||||||||
| Occupation: | Director, Screenwriter | ||||||||
| Years Active: | 2000s–present | ||||||||
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Ying Liang (; born 1977) is a Chinese independent film director and screenwriter.
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.[1] 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.[2]
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).[3]
| Year | English title | Chinese title | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Taking Father Home | 背鸭子的男孩 | ||
| 2006 | The Other Half | 另一半 | ||
| 2008 | Good Cats | 好猫 | ||
| 2009 | Condolences | Short film | ||
| 2012 | When Night Falls | |||
| 2016 | A Sunny Day | Short film | ||
| 2017 | I Have Nothing to Say | Short film | ||
| 2018 | A Family Tour | 自由行 |