Yang Mingming

Directing

Yang Mingming

Beijing, China

Yang Mingming, born in Beijing in 1987, is a female director, screenwriter, actor, and editor in Mainland China, and graduated from the Chinese Academy of Opera. In 2012, Yang Mingming broke into the film industry with the pseudo-documentary "Female Director" written, directed and acted by himself. The film won the 9th Beijing Independent Film Festival Jury's Recommendation Award and many other awards.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Girls Always Happy poster
6.0

Wu is in her mid-twenties and lives with her mother in a traditional one-story house in one of Beijing’s hutongs. Both consider themselves to be writers, but success has so far eluded them. The fact that Wu is supported by a divorced, elderly man helps the women through lean periods. Their unhealthily close relationship is characterized by reproaches and quibbling; only during meals do they appear to lay down their verbal weapons. The situation escalates when both Wu and her mother hit an emotional low.

Girls Always Happy

2018

Girls Always Happy poster
6.0

Wu is in her mid-twenties and lives with her mother in a traditional one-story house in one of Beijing’s hutongs. Both consider themselves to be writers, but success has so far eluded them. The fact that Wu is supported by a divorced, elderly man helps the women through lean periods. Their unhealthily close relationship is characterized by reproaches and quibbling; only during meals do they appear to lay down their verbal weapons. The situation escalates when both Wu and her mother hit an emotional low.

Girls Always Happy

2018

Female Directors poster
7.0

Two brilliant young women, art school graduates with deliciously profane vocabularies and supreme confidence, talk sex, cinema, and power, as they wield their shared video camera like a scalpel.

Female Directors

2012

Female Directors poster
7.0

Two brilliant young women, art school graduates with deliciously profane vocabularies and supreme confidence, talk sex, cinema, and power, as they wield their shared video camera like a scalpel.

Female Directors

2012

Those Who Loved Me poster
NR

During the pandemic, someone shot a short film on a mobile phone—— it’s a love story about an airline stewardess who wanted to fall in love during the dynamic zero-COVID policy in Beijing, so she set out to reconnect with her ex-boyfriends.

Those Who Loved Me

2024

Those Who Loved Me poster
NR

During the pandemic, someone shot a short film on a mobile phone—— it’s a love story about an airline stewardess who wanted to fall in love during the dynamic zero-COVID policy in Beijing, so she set out to reconnect with her ex-boyfriends.

Those Who Loved Me

2024