About Jing wen

Jing Wen is a China-born, London-based filmmaker whose work explores female and nature subjectivity, childhood memory, and emotional transformation through poetic and surreal storytelling. 

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Graduated from London Film School in the MA Filmmaking as director and sound recordist, she also holds a MA in Ethnographic Documentary from University College London and a BA in Communication Studies from the University of Liverpool. Her background in documentary has shaped a sensitive approach to character, observation, and emotional rhythm, which continues to inform her fiction work.

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She is drawn to stories where the emotional truth is quiet but persistent — moments of departure, displacement, and unspoken intimacy. Influenced by magical realism and observational cinema, her films often unfold through a childlike or marginal perspective, allowing everyday spaces to slip into dreamlike states.

 

Jing’s creative practice moves fluidly between directing, sound, and image-making. Rather than treating these disciplines separately, she approaches them as interdependent tools for building atmosphere and psychological space. Sound and rhythm often carry emotional weight in her work, while visual composition remains restrained, tactile, and attentive to gesture.

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Her recent short film A Moonlit Night was selected for the Cannes Short Film Corner and the 2025 Berlin Taiwanese Film Festival (New Talent Competition). Her feature project Air Lily was shortlisted for the 2025 the Women’s Film Fund — 30+ Female Stories Special Section. As a sound director, her work has screened at the FIRST International Film Festival and the Rhode Island International Film Festival.

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Jing believes cinema is not only a way to represent reality, but also a poetic vessel for dreams — a space where solitude, transformation, desire, and the human connection to nature can quietly surface.