Yang Ziting () (born 31 March 1983) is a

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

, producer, and actor from western

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Biography

Early life and education

Yang Ziting was born 31 March 1983 in

Harbin Harbin (; mnc, , v=Halbin; ) is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital and the largest city of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, as well as the second largest city by urban population after Shenyang and largest ...

Heilongjiang Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost province ...

. She studied acting at the

Central Academy of Drama The Central Academy of Drama (), abbreviated Zhong Xi (), is a drama school in Beijing, China. It is a Chinese state Double First Class University Plan university identified by the Ministry of Education of China. The school is the first theatre ...

Career

Yang began her career as an actor. She appeared in 2005–2006 in the television series ''

Star Boulevard ''Star Boulevard'' (Traditional Chinese: 星光大道; Simplified Chinese: 星光大道; pinyin: xīng guāng dà dào) is a China's first TV musical series. It is also called ''Walk of Fame''. This 20-episode series, sponsored by Starlight Inter ...

,'' considered novel for its use of musical performance and the

story within a story A story within a story, also referred to as an embedded narrative, is a literary device in which a character within a story becomes the narrator of a second story (within the first one). Multiple layers of stories within stories are sometimes c ...

device. Her first film appearance was in 2007 as the female lead in ''Revolution to the End,'' a film that used

black comedy Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, morbid humor, or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discus ...

to portray the 1934–1935 events of the

Long March The Long March (, lit. ''Long Expedition'') was a military retreat undertaken by the Chinese Red Army, Red Army of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the National Revolut ...

of the

Chinese Civil War The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and forces of the Chinese Communist Party, continuing intermittently since 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949 with a Communist victory on m ...

. She was shortlisted for the Asian New Talent Award for Best Actress at the Shanghai International Film Festival that year for her portrayal of Ah Shan. In October 2009 Yang made her directorial debut with the zany comedy ''Beauty of Chongqing.'' The film was noted for being the first to be made entirely by professionals born after 1980. In the leadup to the film's release, she appeared in a set of sexually charged "mirror movies" portraying herself giving direction to male actors. The vignettes received over 10 million views and provoked discussion of social mores and her role as a young woman working in a field dominated by men. That year she also directed a public service film ''Miao Meng's Life'' with support from the Red Cross Society of China in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the

Proclamation of the People's Republic of China The founding of the People's Republic of China was formally proclaimed by Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), on October 1, 1949, at 3:00 pm in Tiananmen Square in Peking, now Beijing (formerly Beiping), the new ca ...

. The love story was designed to promote voluntary service through the Red Cross. Her film ''Decrepit Dream'' was screened at the

Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...

. In 2013, she directed the romantic comedy film ''Look around.'' In 2016 she played a supporting role in ''Ten Years to Be Married.''

Filmography

Film

Television

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yang, Ziting 1983 births Living people Chinese film directors Chinese women film directors 21st-century Chinese actresses Chinese film actresses Chinese television actresses Actresses from Harbin