Ying Liang
Ying Liang is a Chinese film director and screenwriter born in 1977 in Shanghai, China. He is known for independent films that explore social injustice, political pressure, and the lives of ordinary people in contemporary China. Ying gained international recognition with films such as Taking Father Home (2005), The Other Half (2006), and When Night Falls (2012), the latter inspired by a controversial real-life legal case and later banned in China. Ying Liang lives and works in Hong Kong. He has been residing there in exile since 2011, following political pressure and censorship regarding his work in mainland China.