Emily Ting

Emily Ting is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She was born in Taipei, but later moved to Los Angeles with her family. Ting graduated from the film/TV program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her first feature-length film, Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong, was released in 2015. Early life and education Ting was born in Taipei in 1980, and moved to Los Angeles with her family when she was very young. After graduating from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, she worked in New York for several years. In 2007, she returned to Hong Kong in order to run her family business. Career After graduation, Ting worked at the documentary distribution company Docurama in New York for several years, and later founded her own production company, Unbound Feet Productions. At the beginning of her career she focused on making documentaries. Her first feature-length documentary, What’s Love Got to Do with It?, premiered in 2002. She also made a documentary short entitled Reality Check in 2006, which is about college graduates facing unemployment. When Ting ran her family's business in Hong Kong，she made a documentary about her family business, Family Inc, which was released in 2008. It is a highly personal documentary, following how she gave up her filmmaking dream and returned home to help her father run a big toy manufacturing empire.