Wang Bing (director)

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

Wang Bing (Chinese: 王兵; pinyin: Wáng Bìng) (born 1967 in Shaanxi) is a Chinese director, often referred to as one of the foremost figures in documentary film-making.^[1] The founder of his own production company, Wang Bing Studios, Wang's 9 hour epic documentary of industrial China, Tie Xi Qu was considered a major success. Tie Xi Qu went on to win the Grand Prix at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film and was show, for the first time in Spain, at the Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival. His film Fengming, a Chinese Memoir, premiered at both Cannes^[1] and Toronto in 2007. More recently Crude Oil premiered at the 2008 Rotterdam Film Festival.

[edit] Filmography

Year	English Title	Chinese Title	Notes
2003	Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks	铁西区	Grand Prix at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film
2007	Fengming, a Chinese Memoir	和凤鸣	Grand Prize at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
2007	"Brutality Factory"		Short in the anthology The State of the World
2008	Crude Oil	采油日记
In development	Hometown		Wang's planned first fiction film, participated in the Pusan Promotion Plan during the 2007 Pusan International Film Festival.[2]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Wang Bing at the Internet Movie Database

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