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Biography |
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| Zhang Ying was born in Sichuan Province. He was involved in filmmaking in Shanghai in 1947 and sent to Taiwan to shoot Happenings in Ali Shan. Due to the civil war he remained in Taiwan and became a civil servant responsible for the film department within the Ministry of Education. He not only helped local filmmakers with sound recording, film printing and cinematography, but also directed Taiwanese-language films such as Little Lovers Escape (Xiao Qingren Taowang, 1958), which won him the Best Director at the 1958 Taiwanese Film Festival, and The Best Secret Agent in 1964. His children's film, Fantasy of the Deer Warrior, is included in our Taiwan's Lost Commercial Cinema season. |
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