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Welcome to the Asian A.V. Club interview podcast series HANG! This week, we sit down with Chinese American director and cinematographer Bing Liu. Born in Beijing and raised in Rockford, Illinois, Liu turned to skateboarding and video-making as an escape from a turbulent home life. That early passion grew into a career behind the camera, eventually leading him to craft his acclaimed documentary Minding the Gap, which stitched together years of footage of himself and his friends literally coming of age. The raw emotional film earned Liu the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award at Sundance, a 2018 Peabody, a New York Film Critics Circle award, and an Academy Award nomination, cementing him as one of the most distinctive nonfiction storytellers of his generation.
Bing makes his narrative feature debut with ...
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