Yang Mingming
Biography
Yang Mingming, born in Beijing in 1987, is a female director, screenwriter, actor, and editor in Mainland China, and graduated from the Chinese Academy of Opera. In 2012, Yang Mingming broke into the film industry with the pseudo-documentary "Female Director" written, directed and acted by himself. The film won the 9th Beijing Independent Film Festival Jury's Recommendation Award and many other awards.
Known For & Full Filmography3 Titles
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as Mingming
Two brilliant young women, art school graduates with deliciously profane vocabularies and supreme confidence, talk sex, cinema, and power, as they wield their shared video camera like a scalpel.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Wu
Wu is in her mid-twenties and lives with her mother in a traditional one-story house in one of Beijing’s hutongs. Both consider themselves to be writers, but success has so far eluded them. The fact that Wu is supported by a divorced, elderly man helps the women through lean periods. Their unhealthily close relationship is characterized by reproaches and quibbling; only during meals do they appear to lay down their verbal weapons. The situation escalates when both Wu and her mother hit an emotional low.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
During the pandemic, someone shot a short film on a mobile phone—— it’s a love story about an airline stewardess who wanted to fall in love during the dynamic zero-COVID policy in Beijing, so she set out to reconnect with her ex-boyfriends.