Crazy Racer

Hao Ning was born in Shanxi, China in 1977. He is a graduate from the Photography Department at Beijing Film Academy. His student film Thursday, Wednesday (2001) was awarded Best Director at the Beijing University Student Film Festival and the Silver Prize at the Chinese University Student Film Festival. Ning Hao’s debut feature Incense (2003) premiered at Locarno, and won the Grand Prize at Tokyo Filmex, and went on to win the Gold Prize in the Asian DV Competition at Hong Kong IFF. The film was also awarded Best Film of 2004 by HK Arts Centre, and shown in official selection at seven other international festivals, namely San Sebastian, Vancouver, Munich, Vienna, Sydney, California and Taiwan South Film Festival. Ning Hao’s latest film, Mongolian Pingpong (2004) was selected for Berlin International Forum and Hong Kong IFF and won the audience choice award in Shanghai IFF under the Asian Section. —asianmediawiki.com