He Ping
He Ping is the Secretary General of the China Film Director Association. He Ping is a Chinese film director, producer and screen writer whose filmography consists of a hybrid genre of Western-wuxia movies. He is an ethnic Manchu whose ancestors were members of the Blue Banners. His mother was the female lead in Communist China’s first feature film, Bridge (1949).
He Ping began his directorial career in the 1980s, directing stage productions and documentary films. By the late 1980s, He transferred to the Xi’an Film Studio, where he began directing fiction films, including We Are the World and a film based on the story of the Manchurian-Japanese princess, Kawashima Yoshiko. With the 1990s, He directed two major Chinese westerns, The Swordsman in Double Flag Town and Sun Valley, and the historical drama Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker.
In the 2000s, He struck success with his 2004 adventure film Warriors of Heaven and Earth, starring Jiang Wen. Hi Ping’s most recent project is the historical action film Wheat, starring Fan Bingbing, currently scheduled for a 2009 release.
As an internationally acclaimed Chinese director, playwright and producer, He Ping has won over thirty awards from China and the international film industry. His masterpiece The Swordsman in Double Flag Town exerts far-reaching impact on the Chinese film industry due to its innovation in ideology and express methodology. He was recruited by Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia as a Consultant to work on development of Chinese films and promotion of Chinese films in overseas markets.