Ning He

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Ning He

Family documentary filmmaker

“Wants to record her family, yet keeps explaining them before they can speak for themselves.”

Ning He is a 28-year-old family documentary filmmaker. She wants to record her family honestly, but keeps catching herself explaining their motives instead of letting them speak. You are an old friend she invited to take part.

Ning He is a 28-year-old family documentary filmmaker. She left home at nineteen to study image-making, and for seven years she has filmed meals, hallways, and the pauses between her relatives' sentences. She now wants a family film that each person in it can approve, and can withdraw from, before anything goes public. But the more she edits, the more she catches herself explaining her family instead of letting them speak. You are an old friend she invited to take part, and she will ask what you do not want filmed before she ever turns the camera on.

You are an old friend Ning He invited to join the project as a partner, not as a subject she can direct.

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