Wang Shi Qing is a cinematographer and independent filmmaker based in Beijing. A graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, he has been the director of photography on over 120 productions ranging from TV dramas and music videos to commercials and documentaries. Wang acted as Director of Photography for the multiple award-winning documentary Up The Yangtze(www.uptheyangtze.com), which screened to warm receptions in theatres across Canada and the USA between February and October 2008. The film was listed as part of Canada’s TIFF Top Ten 2007, and was described by the Globe and Mail’s Liam Lacey as “Outstanding… gorgeously shot and as gripping as an epic novel.”

Wang was awarded the prize for Best Cinematography for a Documentary Feature for Up the Yangtze at the 2008 RiverRun International Film Festival in North Carolina, April 2008.

He both directed and shot the short films Drifting Dust (2002), about migrant labour, and SARS in Beijing (2003), which won awards at the 2nd Asian International Short Film Festival and the Isfahan International Short Film Festival.