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Van Ling is a visual effects supervisor, film producer and creator of DVD menus for many popular movies, including the Star Wars DVDs. Ling graduated summa cum laude from the USC School of Cinema-Television. He began his career as a visual effects supervisor for The Abyss and became head of production on Lightstorm Entertainment, for which he continued with many major motion pictures and television, including Titanic, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Walking Dead, Starship Troopers, Dr. Dolittle, Vanilla Sky and many others.[3] He had a brief cameo in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic, as the Chinese man, who was in real-life, a Chinese passenger booked under the name of Fang Lang (original name Wing Sun Fong, 方榮山), whom Fifth Officer Harold Lowe rescued from the sea. Van is also an active member of the Visual Effect Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Producers Guild of America and the Visual Effects Society, the latter in which he served six terms as Board of Directors. He wrote and directed Cliffs of Freedom, an indie drama film starring Christopher Plummer, Billy Zane, Lance Henriksen, Tania Raymonde, Jan Uddin, Raza Jaffrey, Patti LuPone, Costas Mandylor, and Kevin Corrigan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Van Ling, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Director:
1993 T2: More Than Meets the Eye
2001 Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator'
2003 No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects
2019 Cliffs of Freedom
Editor:
1993 T2: More Than Meets the Eye
2001 Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator'
2003 No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects
2019 Cliffs of Freedom
Executive Producer:
1993 T2: More Than Meets the Eye
1993 Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
2001 Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator'
2003 No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects
2019 Cliffs of Freedom
Producer:
1989 The Abyss
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1993 T2: More Than Meets the Eye
1993 Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
2001 Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator'
2003 No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects
2019 Cliffs of Freedom
Screenplay:
1989 The Abyss
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1993 T2: More Than Meets the Eye
1993 Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
2001 Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator'
2003 No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects
2019 Cliffs of Freedom
Sound Designer:
1989 The Abyss
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1993 T2: More Than Meets the Eye
1993 Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
1997 Men in Black
2001 Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator'
2003 No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects
2019 Cliffs of Freedom
Visual Effects Coordinator:
1989 The Abyss
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1993 T2: More Than Meets the Eye
1993 Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
1997 Men in Black
2001 Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator'
2003 No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects
2019 Cliffs of Freedom
Visual Effects Supervisor:
1989 The Abyss
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1993 T2: More Than Meets the Eye
1993 Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
1997 Men in Black
1997 Starship Troopers
1997 Titanic
1998 Deep Rising
1998 Doctor Dolittle
1998 Soldier
1999 Stir of Echoes
2001 Not Another Teen Movie
2001 Other Voices: Creating 'The Terminator'
2003 No Feat But What We Make: 'Terminator 2' and the Rise of Digital Effects
2011 Last Man Standing
2019 Cliffs of Freedom
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