Bing Liu

Bio

Bing Liu is a China-born, Midwest-raised filmmaker best known for directing Minding the Gap, which was nominated for Best Feature Documentary at the 2019 Academy Awards, an Independent Spirit Award, an Emmy and won a Sundance Special Jury and Peabody Award. He co-directed his second feature documentary All These Sons with Josh Altman, which won Best Cinematography at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and the Maysles Award at the Denver International Film Festival. Liu has been supported by Kartemquin’s Diverse Voices in Documentary, the Film Independent Fellowship and Truer Than Fiction Award, the Garrett Scott Development Grant, the United States Artists fellowship, the SFFILM Westridge Fellowship, the Sundance Screenwriter and Director Labs, the Sundance Institute Asian American Fellowship and the Concordia Fellowship. Liu made his narrative debut with Preparation for the Next Life this year.